I am having trouble finding this story on the net.  I can only find the
stuff on phishing.

I was able to get this out of cache



Wells Fargo ATMs crash

 By Associated Press staff
3 p.m.Tuesday, August 21, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - Service problems disabled ATMs and online accounts at Wells
Fargo & Co. for at least 24 hours starting Sunday afternoon, leaving some
customers of the nation's fifth largest bank unable to get cash or use debit
cards to pay for goods.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo would not say how many customers or machines
were affected but acknowledged that services were down throughout the
company - from personal banking and Wells Fargo corporate Web sites and ATMs
to the processing of mortgage and student loans.

"Customers may continue to experience transaction difficulties or delays in
our stores, at ATMs and at the point-of-sale ... and processing for some
mortgage, home equity, student loans and remittances," Wells Fargo
spokeswoman Julia S. Tunis said. "Our systems teams are working to fix those
problems and we hope to have all channels fully available soon."

Although some customers noticed nothing wrong, others complained Monday at
several of the bank's 6,000 branches. Many customers could get cash only if
they went into a branch and talked to a teller - but they had no way of
getting cash after-hours at ATMs.

Charles Muturi visited a branch in San Francisco's South of Market district
Monday, intending to talk to customer service representatives about getting
a home loan. Instead, bank workers told the 41-year-old San Francisco
resident they couldn't process his application because of the service
problems, and they asked him to come back Tuesday.

"I can come back tomorrow, but it's inconvenient," Muturi grumbled as he
left the branch.


Lizette

> 
> Perhaps I was asleep earlier this week, but I do not recall seeing any
> traffic about Wells Fargo's "mainframe" shutting itself down and causing a
> nation-wide crash of it's network.
> 
> Anyone know what really happened?
> 
> There is a TON of traffic on the Phishing sites about how best to take
> advantage of the situation. :(
>

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