Reports: ING Bank Accounts Suffering From Catastrophic Errors

Twitter was ablaze earlier today with reports that global super-bank ING was suffering from catastrophic accounting errors, with some Dutch accounts incorrectly showing negative balances and others registering millions of Euros.


Several of the comments (translated by Google):

• "Problem solved. Before you look through - €1.3M"

• "Say # ING, where the f * ck is my money now gone?"

• "Balance for the third time changed today # ING"

• "Thanks ING from € 500, - to € 2,317,650 in the bank. - on the couch! Hope it also remains after jam! # ing # error "


Unconfirmed reports claim that the errors -- along with banking problems at the Netherlands' Rabobank -- are the result of a cyber-attack:

From top level sources I can confirm to you what you are seeing is an emerging pattern of various beta-tests using Stuxnet like algorithms to affect the banking networks the world over.

Although unsubstantiated, the reports have some level of credibility as the global banking system has been under a concerted series of attacks for the last several weeks.