Westpac New Zealand incident

Duplicate direct debits

Resolved after 5 hours 10 minutes, affecting Payment Services, on May 9, 2023.

resolved May 10, 2023, 02:12 AM UTC

UPDATE: This issue has now been fixed. We’ve made an adjustment to affected accounts to correct balances. For the rest of the day, accounts will show the transaction from yesterday, the duplicate transaction this morning and the credit transaction correcting this error. The duplicate charge and the adjustment amount will disappear overnight. We apologise for the confusion and inconvenience this has caused.

Started
May 09, 2023, 09:01 PM UTC
Resolved
May 10, 2023, 02:12 AM UTC
Duration
5h 10m
Detected by Pingoru
May 09, 2023, 09:01 PM UTC

Affected components

Payment Services

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 09, 2023, 09:01 PM UTC

    Due to a technical issue some direct debits have appeared twice in customers’ accounts . We’re very sorry for the inconvenience. Our teams are working hard to fix this issue as quickly as possible.

  2. resolved May 10, 2023, 02:12 AM UTC

    UPDATE: This issue has now been fixed. We’ve made an adjustment to affected accounts to correct balances. For the rest of the day, accounts will show the transaction from yesterday, the duplicate transaction this morning and the credit transaction correcting this error. The duplicate charge and the adjustment amount will disappear overnight. We apologise for the confusion and inconvenience this has caused.

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