Revolut suffers global service outage
Revolut global outage — bank operations disrupted in Europe, USA, Australia and other locations. This morning, Revolut users encountered banking service issues.
Consensus
- Revolut experienced a global technical outage on Tuesday, October 20.
- Users in multiple countries, including the UK, Germany, France, the U.S., and Australia, reported issues accessing their accounts.
- Problems included inability to open the app, make payments, transfer funds, withdraw cash, and log in.
- Revolut confirmed the outage and stated that customer money and data are secure.
- The company is working to resolve the issue and apologized for the inconvenience.
- The outage affected multiple services including card payments, currency exchange, stock market access, and customer support.
- Downdetector and national monitoring services reported widespread complaints across Europe, the U.S., and other regions.
Points of divergence
- The outage was caused by a failure in the London Google Cloud data center, according to Reuters. — thebell
- The outage coincided with a major Google Cloud failure in London that affected 31 services, including data storage and databases. Revolut had recently expanded its partnership with Google Cloud in September 2025, though the link is not officially confirmed. — tg_theinsider
- Two previous data incidents occurred in September 2024 involving Revolut: one where the bank mistakenly shared user data after a fake government request, and another where hackers breached DriveWealth’s system, which handles Revolut users’ U.S. stock investments. No evidence links today’s outage to cyberattacks. — tg_theinsider
- Revolut previously disclosed two data incidents in September 2024: one involving a fake government request and another involving a breach of DriveWealth’s system. — meduza
- Users of other banks, including ING in Germany and Rabobank in the Netherlands, also reported login issues, suggesting broader infrastructure problems. — tg_bbcrussian
Coverage (9 sources)
- U Revolut global outage — bank operations disrupted in Europe, USA, Australia and other locations Today morning users... — Дождь (Telegram)
- Bank Revolut reported on a major outage — Вечерняя Москва
- Revolut experiencing major outage — The Bell
- Revolut customers faced payment and transfer failures. A major outage simultaneously occurred in the Google Cloud system — The Insider
- Revolut global outage — bank operations disrupted in Europe, USA, Australia and other locations — Дождь (Telegram)
- U Revolut global outage — bank operations disrupted in Europe, USA, Australia and other places — Дождь
- In Revolut there was a breakdown — Meduza
- In the work of online bank Revolut a failure occurred, the company's press service reported: — Varlamov News
- Global outage at Revolut: users in the UK, Germany and Latvia cannot use bank services — BBC News Русская служба