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Area bank's online service goes down; bombards some customers with hundreds of e-mails

UPDATE: The bank reports online started coming back up for some users shortly after 9 p.m.; all customers should have access by tomorrow morning.

Rockland Trust reports its techs are working as hard as they can to get its Web site and online-banking service back online after it crashed last night. Without getting into the specifics of what went wrong, the bank adds:

This was not and is not a security issue. You're information and accounts are safe and secure.

Meanwhile, some customers are now reporting they are getting hundreds of e-mails with a security code they never requested:

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" You're information and accounts are safe "

Just sayin...

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"You're passwords r good"

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is enough to convince me that it's being sent by a fake Nigerian prince or teenaged Romanian hacker. So come on, Rockland--get it together.

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It was probably one harried person called in for the emergency and responding to lots of angry people.

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They can't remember the you're vs. your distinction they learned in third grade what chance are they going to have trying to remember how to fix their code?

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Mixing up "=" and "==" ...

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n/t

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600 emails ...went over my 12GB data plan too because of this

600 emails uses how much data?

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11.99 GB watching videos of kittens and .01 GB for those extra emails.

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contain bank advertising videos. With kittens.

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