Systems still toast since NYE compromise, manual processing only
Foreign currency mega-exchange Travelex said on Thursday it was forced offline by a "software virus" infection, bring down a number of currency-exchange websites with it.
In a statement shared on Thursday, the UK-headquartered biz said the digital nasty, first spotted on New Year's Eve, caused it to unplug its UK site and online services while it worked to clear up the mess.
In-person transactions at bureaus and airports are still continuing albeit using manual processing, and we're told customer data has not been accessed by miscreants. At the time of writing, travelex.co.uk was still offline and showing a runtime error message.
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