Commonwealth Bank customers experiencing nationwide outages

There are major technical issues affecting the Commonwealth Bank around Australia.

Customers nationally are reporting having trouble using their cards, transferring between their accounts and using online banking.

Some branches are even being forced to close their doors to customers as they work on the issue.

The bank is urgently investigating the problems.

It released an audio grab, apologising for the issue.

Click PLAY below to hear it

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