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In case you missed it: early this morning, Westpac services came back online following an outage overnight where customers were unable to access their online accounts or use their cards.

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Our mobile and online banking services are now restored and running as usual.

We want to apologise to all our customers who were impacted by the issue overnight. We recognise this took too long to resolve and we thank customers for their patience.