Bank of America suffers outage as tens of thousands of users report struggling to get cash from ATM or check online accounts

Bank of America is experiencing a nationwide outage that is impacting tens of thousands users.

DownDetector, a tract that monitors online issues, shows problems struck astir 1pm ET, arsenic users reported online and mobile banking and ATM services are down. 

Some Bank of American customers person besides reported their accounts are showing an quiet balance.  

As of 1:20pm ET, astir 20,000 Bank of America had reported outages to DownDetector.

'There’s immoderate benignant of glitch connected nan Bank of America website that shows $0 successful each accounts and honestly I deliberation they beryllium everybody immoderate rate for symptom and suffering because that was highly stressful for a 2nd there,' 1 personification posted connected X, formerly Twitter. 

According to DownDetector, nan outage is wide crossed nan US, affecting nan pursuing awesome cities: New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

Approximately 50 percent of rumor reports cited problems pinch online banking, 41 percent cited mobile banking and conscionable 1 percent of users reported issues pinch ATMs.

Bank of America has not yet stated what caused nan outage, erstwhile services will beryllium restored aliases whether this incident put users' money astatine risk. 

It is nan second-largest slope successful nan US pinch astatine slightest 69 cardinal consumers and mini businesses arsenic customers.