Telstra outage: Aussies reach for emergency cash as system crash halts card payment systems
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Is carrying emergency cash so back?💰🤔 As a massive nationwide Telstra outage affected tens of thousands of Australians — halting multiple train networks and card payment systems — we asked Australians if they used their emergency cash stash to make it through the morning. Telstra said the issue was caused by a node problem affecting timekeeping across its network, resulting in intermittent outages. The source of the issue lies in servers held in data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, the company said. Read more: https://bit.ly/4wzI2qU
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