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'No way to pay': the Croydon families left stranded at the till

When cards stopped working nationwide, the abstraction of forty million pounds became very real.

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'No way to pay': the Croydon families left stranded at the till
Declined.  For Croydon families on Friday afternoon, the breach arrived as a card that would not work. Picture: Ledger

"I had two children at the supermarket and no way to pay," said Donna Reyes, 41, of Croydon. For families across the country, the Wicked Bank breach arrived not as a headline but as a declined card at the till.