Revolut down as thousands of users report app not working
After publishing: 1 headline quietly rewritten1 change
- France Info (France)seen 23 Oct, 04:18headline rewritten
Google signale des incidents informatiques sur plusieurs services de cloud en Europe, leur rétablissement est en coursLes services de Google Cloud en Europe ont connu des perturbations suite à un "incident électrique", les services de Revolut et plusieurs entreprises temporairement perturbés
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How it spread - 29 original reports
Tue, 20 October 2026
24 reports- bbc.co.uk08:46
Some users of the British neobank reported being unable to make some payments or access funds in its app on Tuesday.
- Channel News Asia09:11first to report
Google said its engineering team was investigating the issue, but gave no reason for the disruption caused.
- Channel News Asia09:11
- Google News - Europe query09:13
Google Cloud services experience outage in Europe Reuters
- Google News - Europe query09:34
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted The Register
- Google News - Europe query10:36
European banks, websites hit as Google Cloud data centre goes offline for hours ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC News (Australia)10:36
The technology giant's London data centre reports "service disruption" as major banking institutions experience outages.
- Google News - Europe query10:47
Google Says 'Multiple' Cloud Services Suffer Network Failures in Europe ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English
- Google News - Europe query10:53
Google Reports Cloud Disruptions in Europe The New York Times
- NYT World11:09
The disruptions began around 7 a.m. in London after what the tech giant called a “power event.”
- Index.hr (Croatia)11:18
KVAR Google Clouda u Europi blokirao je rad banaka poput Revoluta i brojnih online usluga, a inženjeri rade na hitnoj uspostavi sustava.
- gulfnews.com11:19
Engineers were investigating network failures and errors affecting several cloud services
- France Info (France)11:27edited after publishing
previously
Google signale des incidents informatiques sur plusieurs services de cloud en Europe, leur rétablissement est en coursLe géant de la tech attribue ces difficultés à un "incident électrique", désormais "maîtrisé". Plusieurs institutions financières britanniques ont signalé des problèmes informatiques mardi matin.
- Die Zeit (Germany)12:18
- bmmagazine.co.uk13:07
A Google Cloud outage caused by a power failure in London disrupted Revolut card payments and hit Lloyds, DPD and Rightmove customers on Tuesday.
- Libération (France)13:25
Le géant américain a fait état ce mardi 20 octobre de perturbations ciblant son centre de données européen. De quoi affecter plusieurs services dont le retrait aux distributeurs et les virements bancaires.
- Anadolu Agency (AA)13:27
Google Cloud confirms disruption affecting multiple services in its western European infrastructure, with customers reporting connection failures and delays
- Die Zeit (Germany)13:31
Bei Google hat es einen schweren Ausfall in einem Rechenzentrum in London gegeben. Experten vermuten, dass der Vorfall sich auch auf Banken in Europa auswirkte.
- Channel News Asia13:37
- livemint.com15:40
Google said the incident began at 0608 GMT and was caused by a power-related event at its cloud infrastructure. By 1210 GMT, most services had returned to normal, around six hours after the disruption began.
- The Guardian World16:50
Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London , and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app. The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of more than a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to...
- ANSA (Italy)16:59
Altri istituti di credito down, disagi per gli utenti. Il problema riguarda il centro dati europeo di Google a Londra. Adusbef: 'Subito indennizzi o partiranno azioni legali'
- ANSA (Italy)16:59
Il problema riguarda il centro dati del gruppo a Londra
- ANSA (Italy)16:59
Milioni di utenti colpiti soprattutto in Gran Bretagna a causa di un 'guasto elettrico'
Wed, 21 October 2026
5 reports- ibtimes.co.uk12:14
A power-related Google Cloud outage in London disrupted banking services, remote court hearings and business operations, while Google worked to restore remaining affected workloads and investigate the cause.
- Channel News Asia15:43
- Google News - Europe query15:43
Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks Yahoo Finance
- Google News - Europe query15:43
Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks Yahoo Finance Singapore
- Google News - Europe query15:43
Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks Reuters