machines. The company couldn’t conduct any customer activities at bank windows, including retail and corporate banking.
At one Starbucks in downtown Seoul, customers were asked to pay for their coffee in cash, and lines were forming outside disabled bank machines. Seoul is a largely cashless society, with many people using debit and credit cards.
Broadcasters KBS and MBC said their computers went down at 2 p.m., but officials said the shutdown did not affect daily TV broadcasts.
YTN cable news channel also said the company’s internal computer network was completely paralyzed. Local TV showed workers staring at blank computer screens.
Shinhan Bank said its networks were back online by 3:50 p.m. local time and that banking was back to normal at branches and online. But computers at KBS and MBC were still down more than three hours after the shutdown began, the news outlets said.
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