- Around 450,000 customers affected by recent banking app glitch
- Lloyds has made £139,000 in goodwill payments to more than 3,600 customers
- Treasury Committee wants two new updates after one and six months
As many as 447,936 banking customers may have had their data exposed or seen other bankers’ transactions during a computer glitch on March 12, 2026 affecting those using Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland mobile apps, a report has confirmed.
New findings from the Treasury Committee indicate that 114,182 users clicked on transactions that potentially allowed them to view sensitive information, such as account numbers and National Insurance numbers.
This led the Treasury Committee chairman to ask “a series of questions” to Lloyds Group, which has now shared more information on the issue.
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Lloyds glitch affected nearly 450,000 banking app customers
A letter from Jasjyot Singh, CEO of consumer relations, explains that the problem occurred between 3:28 a.m. and 8:08 a.m., caused by a software fault during a nightly system update. A fix was released this morning.
Although transaction amounts, dates, beneficiary information, account numbers, sort codes, NI numbers and references could all have been exposed, it appears that this exposure required near-simultaneous access to the app by different users – so it was as much dependent on the timing of use as the problem in the first place.
We now know that no unauthorized transactions or account access took place, and no financial losses have been identified to date. The risk of financial fraud was also judged to be very low.
Regardless, Lloyds paid £139,000 in compensation to 3,625 customers in recognition of the distress or inconvenience caused. Singh said this type of goodwill payment would be made under usual circumstances for any inconvenience anyway, and that it was not just a direct result of this particular problem.
The Treasury Committee has now requested additional one-month and six-month follow-up reports from the bank to ensure the incident was contained and did not affect customers.
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