ATM system breaks down, again

[the_tyrant]

Wells Fargo & Co.'s national network of automated teller machines crashed over the weekend, at least the second time this year that the San Francisco bank has had a mass outage of ATMs.

Most of Wells' 12,000 ATMs, which include thousands from its 2008 takeover of Wachovia Bank, stopped working late Friday afternoon. Service was restored about 4:30 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, said Jennifer L. Langan, a spokeswoman for the giant San Francisco-based bank.

The causes of the recent outage and of another that Langan said knocked out a majority of Wells' ATMs on Feb. 7 were not disclosed.

full article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mone...l?dlvrit=71041

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