Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds

Xero says that problems linked to its login infrastructure – not security woes – were to blame for yesterday's mega wobble that saw customers locked out of the cloud-based accounting software for almost eleven hours. The outage began at 08.25 UTC on 27 July and was not fully resolved until 19.04 UTC, according to Xero's status …

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the second major outage in less than 7 days for Xero - It's pretty piss-poor that a service used by so many can have two serious incidents in short succession, especially with everyone trying to run Payroll/VAT returns and their RFO is sparse.