British bank shuts website until April 2012

Everyone's thinking it so I'll say it: WTF?!<p>If Wells Fargo turned off online banking for 1 month, I'd switch banks.<p>I wonder if they are handling everything in-house or have hired external consultants/company to build out this wonderful new site &#38; mobile app that will take a full year.<p>Now if their current system had a major exploit and the only way to fix it is to rewrite the whole thing, I guess they have no choice. At the very least they should have put together a temporary "read only" type of site that involve less/no risk on their part and provide their call centers a bit of relief.<p>Ballsy move (and not in a good way.)

Just to clarify, it's not <i>entirely</i> down. It's just investments. I use this bank for checking and credit card and they're both fine.

This is what happens when you bail out companies: you end up with a bunch of dynosaurs stumbling like the savages they are.

Frankly, if their intentions are to build a site which is more secure, and there was a gaping security flaw with the existing site, then it is good news that it won't be available for a year.

Palo Alto's utility company did the same thing while they rebuilt their bill pay site. Really frustrating as a user, especially for a city at the heart of the Valley.