Servers of major banks such as HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India (SBI) and Kotak Mahindra Bank reportedly experienced outage on Tuesday, February 6. Customers took to X (formerly Twitter) to complain that they were unable to make UPI transactions via apps like Google Pay, BHIM and PhonePe, hinting at possible server down situation at many banks.
X was flooded with posts from customers of different banks in India complaining about issues in making UPI-based transactions. It appears the outage mainly affected UPI services. Downdetector, the website that keeps track of issues and outages with all kinds of tech services, also witnessed a spike in users reporting issues regarding UPI payments, services of Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC Bank
