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Re:How Can a Major Bank Like Capital One Be Offline for 24 Hours?
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:19PM (#42734031)
One service provider is down because of a power outage, and I can't login to my account for over 30 hours?
Re:How Can a Major Bank Like Capital One Be Offline for 24 Hours?
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:15PM (#42733724)
I hope it was sarcastic. If not, a bank does so much more. Banks lend money and keep deposits safe (most of the time :)). Does bitcoin lend money? Can bitcoin pay my vendors in USD? Will it accept my deposits or ACH direct deposits?
Re:How Can a Major Bank Like Capital One Be Offline for 24 Hours?
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:09PM (#42733690)
Here is an email I got more than 24 hours after my accounts have been unavailable:
Valued customer,
Starting Jan. 15, 2025, Capital One began experiencing a disruption in our payment processing and account balance updates, which is due to a technical issue with one of our service providers.
This may have also delayed timely processing of transactions such as wires, ACH, book transfers and loan closing disbursements as well as opening new accounts.
We’re working closely with our provider to resolve this issue and restore processing as quickly as possible. We expect services to gradually begin to return to normal throughout today and the majority of issues to be resolved by tomorrow morning.
We assure you that we are taking this event very seriously and that your accounts remain secure. We sincerely apologize for the disruption and are doing everything we can to address this as quickly as possible.
Once service is restored, you’ll be able to sign in and view your account information online or through the Capital One Mobile app. At that time, feel free to call us at 888‑755‑2172, 8 a.m.‑8 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday for further assistance
Re:How Can a Major Bank Like Capital One Be Offline for 24 Hours?
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:41PM (#42733146)
I have a small business and run my payroll, vendor payments, etc. with Capital One bank. My accounts have been completely unavailable since yesterday.
Can anyone share what's going on and how a bank of that size can suffer such a prolonged outage?
Re:Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
on Monday July 29, 2024 @12:39AM (#41097931)
Good explanation about this point at 11:15 over at https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?si=wGXDJZtUczcIui9F
Ask HN: Why does PayPal giving take so long?
I donated recently to various charities via PayPal's Giving Fund. Despite their disclaimer, I was surprised to see that it consistently takes over three weeks to pay my chosen charity.Is this your experience too? Why would PayPal need to keep the funds for so long before passing them along?
Re:Windows 11 Expired Certificate
on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:05AM (#29115319)
Can anyone provide technical details about this? I'm curious about how a company as large as Microsoft manages signing certificates and how this failure happened.
Windows 11 Expired Certificate
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I work for a very large organization and we have many systems that live in a single region in AWS, us-east-1. While we use multi-AZ RDS instances and EC2 instances across multiple AZ's we don't have regular backups to another AWS region. If us-east-1 was obliterated, we would lose a significant number of mission-critical systems. My questions:1. Is it safe to rely on AWS for DR across...
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Re:H-1B Employer Data Hub
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:28PM (#19560073)
The file labeled 2019 contains 22,502 rows and the fiscal 2019 year is not yet complete. The file labeled 2018 is the one that contains 55,667 rows.
Re:H-1B Employer Data Hub
on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:59PM (#19550678)
I just downloaded them all and 2018 is larger (measuring by bytes or lines) than 2017/2016/2015.
Ask HN: Which large banks don't use 2FA
Capital One Bank is ranked 10th on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets and has its name on the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. So, as 2019 begins, why don't they use 2FA for user authentication? What other large banks still rely on username and password for authentication?