Wachovia online banking restored after being down for hours today

Reports are also surfacing on Google News.

In the meantime, any Wachovia customers out there willing to send me a screenshot of what you're seeing when you try to log in?

UPDATE, 1:45: Aimee Worsley, a Wachovia spokeswoman, just left me a voicemail saying that the outage was due to a "systems problem", and was NOT a planned outage. Sit tight, folks. In italics below is her emailed response to me:

Wachovia Online Banking was impacted by a systems issue. We apologize to any customers who are experiencing an intermittent disruption in service while conducting their financial activities through Wachovia Online banking, mobile banking, and Wells Fargo Advisors Online (formally Wachovia Securities) for brokerage services. Customers can continue to conduct their financial activities through our phone centers, ATMs, or stores and brokerage clients can also conduct their financial activities through their financial advisor. We are working to correct the situation.

We know that customers hold us to a high standard of trust and reliability and we want to assure them that all data about their accounts remain safe and secure. We appreciate customers' patience and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

(I saw some posts on your blog where customers are attributing this to the conversion of credit card accounts from Wachovia to Wells Fargo--this service disruption is unrelated to that conversion or any other merger-related activity.)

UPDATE, 4:22pm: Some Wachovia customers are telling me via Twitter that they're able to log in to the site, but it's slow.