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UK finance firm Hargreaves Lansdown hit by IT failre

On Friday morning, thousands of customers reported being locked out of Hargreaves Lansdown's website and mobile app, with outage reports spiking since Thursday evening, Downdetector showed.
Attributing the problem to technical faults, the firm insisted clients' assets and data were secure and there was no evidence of any cyber incident during Friday's disruption.
Placing trades and moving money were among the services unavailable, and customers who reported losses posted angry messages on X about poor communication.
Investor anger mounted as the outage coincided with heightened market volatility, with affected users demanding compensation and threatening to switch to rival firms amid immediate financial impact claims.
Hargreaves Lansdown's scale — managing investments for two million people and billions of pounds — makes outages significant less than two weeks before the financial year-end as investors top up ISAs amid fee changes affecting 400,000 investors.

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