April 7, 2011 at 16:18British Bank closes the site until April 2012
Halifax Bank of Scotland customers are advised to print all the necessary information from their investment account until April 18, 2011, after which the investment section of the site will be closed . This is done to develop a "completely new site, more secure and easy to use," with support for even mobile banking. In an updated form, all this wealth of new technologies will open in April 2012.
Notifications were sent to customers with a link to a web page where phone numbers for contacting the bank are indicated.
After closing the online service, you can contact the bank only by phone or by letter (or pigeon mail).
The question arises: what prevents the development of a new version in parallel with the current one? Why be sure to close the old site? In response to this question, an official representative of the bank in an interview with The Register said that this was part of the overall reorganization of the bank’s web services, and only a small proportion of customers used online investment banking.
Of course, the arguments of the bank manager do not hold water. It is easier to believe that the true reason for the closure of the service lies in the field of information security. Maybe they discovered some kind of global hole, which cannot be fixed in any other way than to rewrite everything from scratch. Otherwise, it’s hard to explain how this is possible in the modern world - just take and close the site for a year “for upgrade”.
Notifications were sent to customers with a link to a web page where phone numbers for contacting the bank are indicated.
After closing the online service, you can contact the bank only by phone or by letter (or pigeon mail).
The question arises: what prevents the development of a new version in parallel with the current one? Why be sure to close the old site? In response to this question, an official representative of the bank in an interview with The Register said that this was part of the overall reorganization of the bank’s web services, and only a small proportion of customers used online investment banking.
Of course, the arguments of the bank manager do not hold water. It is easier to believe that the true reason for the closure of the service lies in the field of information security. Maybe they discovered some kind of global hole, which cannot be fixed in any other way than to rewrite everything from scratch. Otherwise, it’s hard to explain how this is possible in the modern world - just take and close the site for a year “for upgrade”.