For the past few days, CIMB’s customer service has been flooded with complaints and criticisms online over technical difficulties customers were facing when trying to access their banking services. There’s a claim posted by Twitter user @aizadfahmy that CIMB’s servers were hit with a ransomware attack. However, CIMB Group Holdings Bhd denied this allegation and that its customers have always been able to perform their transactions as usual. CIMB admitted that they did face technical issues which affected some of its systems, but the matter had been addressed quickly.
Malaysia Airlines is the first companies to highlight that CIMB was experiencing a technical glitch with its credit card payment system. Malaysia Airlines’ users were advised to use CIMB Clicks or other alternative payment methods. Online shopping platform, Shopee also had posted asking customers to use CIMB’s online banking system instead of CIMB’s credit card.
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