Expired Certificate crashed $6 trillion Bank of England system

Network configuration, CA and SWIFT issues, and certificate expiration blamed for a series of RTGS outages the past year.

Edward Targett

Sep 30, 2024 - 3 min read

The Bank of England's Committee Room. Credit: BoE.

A critical Bank of England payments system crashed in July because a “certificate within the Bank’s infrastructure” expired, The Stack can reveal.

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