Sentence examples for a computer failure from inspiring English sources

On Sunday night Sainsbury's accidentally cancelled hundreds of online orders after a computer failure.

The crash of the Predator in Arizona in April 2006 resembled a computer failure more than a plane crash.

Sainsbury's accidentally cancelled hundreds of online orders after a computer failure, and Waitrose online shoppers were let down after a website glitch.

Mr. Matthews says the market is also risk-averse and prone to testing things to their limit — no restaurant can afford a computer failure at peak time.

The company bought a backup device for her years ago, she said, after a computer failure caused her to lose nine months of work.

Elaborate design, engineering, and programming of the "fail-safe" variety was meant to minimize the chance that a computer failure or some simple accident would set off a major catastrophe.

It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.

Her day as a computer programmer at Chase Manhattan Bank had skidded to an abrupt stop courtesy of a systemwide computer failure, and all employees got the afternoon off.

The banking group was fined £56m by the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority last year for a major computer failure that left up to 6.5 million customers unable to use their account for up to three weeks in 2012.

The banking group was fined £56m by the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority last year for a big computer failure that left as many as 6.5 million customers unable to use their account for up to three weeks in 2012.

These include fines and compensation payments for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, a massive computer failure, the mis-selling of interest rate products to small businesses and the manipulation of the foreign exchange market.