Customers of Nationwide have been unable to access account information after computer problems struck at the building society. Online banking has been unavailable and some customers have been unable to access account details in branches. The building society has apologised and says that it is working as quickly as possible to fix the problem. It is not the first electronic failure to hit Nationwide. An error led to double payments being taken last July. Some 704,426 account holders saw money taken from their accounts twice on that occasion. Nationwide said that was caused by a "one-off human error".

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Nationwide, the biggest building society in the UK, has about four million customers. Customers have complained that some services have been down for much of the day. The mutual, owned by its members, said that an IT issue was affecting services including its Online Bank. A message on its website told customers that online banking was unavailable.....Read more here