The failure of the ATM machine of the Bank of Ireland led to the withdrawal of money without deducting the balance, and people waited in a long queue to buy zero yuan.

CTOnews.com August 17 news, the Bank of Ireland's ATM machine encountered a serious Bug the day before yesterday, the customer's account balance will not be reduced after withdrawing money. The news soon spread, with customers lining up in front of ATM machines to withdraw money from "free large piggy banks" and law enforcement officers deploying police in front of ATM machines across the country, but authorities said "no one was arrested".

Bank of Ireland said yesterday that it was an "information technology glitch" that caused the failure, which has now been fixed. In this run, some customers withdrew more money than they had in their accounts.

The bank has warned customers that all previous withdrawals made by customers after Bug repair, even if they "exceed the withdrawal value of the customer's balance", will be deducted from the customer's electronic account balance (negative balance account).

▲ Touyuan Bank of Ireland posted a post on the X platform that the Bank of Ireland and the Irish police did not immediately say whether criminal charges would be brought against people who deliberately exceeded the limit. However, CTOnews.com found that the bank said it would impose credit penalties on "negative balance accounts".

Michael McGrath, Ireland's finance minister, said yesterday that he had asked the Irish central bank to investigate the incident and report to him how "this level of information technology problems" occurred. The bank has apologized for the "glitch", but officials do not yet know the cause of the accident.