BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY v. HITACHI VANTARA CORPORATION

  1. February 25, 2022

    Hitachi Unit, Truist Settle Suit Over Online Banking Outage

    The successor to BB&T Corp. has reached a deal to end litigation against data storage company Hitachi Vantara Corp. over a "catastrophic" 2018 outage that shut down BB&T's online banking platform for 15 hours.

  2. April 10, 2020

    Hitachi Can't Escape BB&T's Suit Over Online Banking Outage

    Hitachi's data storage subsidiary must face BB&T's breach of contract suit over a "catastrophic" outage on BB&T's online banking platform after a North Carolina federal judge found Friday that the bank properly supported its claims with detailed facts.

  3. November 27, 2019

    Hitachi Hit With Suit Over BB&T's 'Catastrophic' ATM Outage

    Branch Banking and Trust Co. bank hit Hitachi with a lawsuit in federal court, alleging its tech division’s gross negligence in installing and maintaining the bank’s data management system caused a “catastrophic” outage that shut down its online banking platform for 15 hours and lost data on “massive” amounts of transactions.