[News] Visa cards are currently NOT working

[TomandJerry]

Visa outage: payment chaos after card network crashes

The extent of the disruption is not yet clear but customers in the UK and Europe have been complaining that payments have been denied.

Barclays and Bank of Ireland advised customers to use ATMs to withdraw cash, which appear to still be working.

Visa is working to resolve the problem but one payments firm said transactions were now working intermittently.

The Payment Systems Regulator told the BBC it understood the problem to be limited to Visa card payments only. Mastercard said it was seeing no problems on its network.

Supermarket Tesco said that the problem was not affecting chip and pin payments, but that it was affecting customers using contactless payments.

 

[Weststander]

Radio 5live listeners with Mastercards, not Visas, called in saying that their cards were rejected too.

Europe wide problems apparently.

 

[Barham's tash]

Russian hacking


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[DumLum]

Seems to be working now. Fingers crossed.

 

[TomandJerry]

Seems to be working now. Fingers crossed.

American Express and Mastercard currently working

 

[GM98]

Just been to Tesco Shoreham, not working there

 

[DumLum]

Just been to Tesco Shoreham, not working there

Just read that Haywards Heath Sainsburys is the same. Cash points are going to run out of money aren't they.

 

[Driver8]

Just been to Tesco Shoreham, not working there

Mine just worked in Tesco Holywell if that helps.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's intermittent. We've just done the weekly shop, and paid via Apple pay (linked to a Visa card) in Lidl's, then to Morrisons garage, but in Morrisons store just 25 mins later the payment was refused. Luckily my other half also has a Mastercard card, otherwise we'd have had to abandon the shopping, run right round to the bank to draw out cash.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44335804

Some reports that contactless is working, others saying it's not, but chip and pin is.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Yep...know all about this as my company is trying to fix the problem.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Mine didn't work in Sainsburys this evening. Problem is even worse because of the Talk Talk outage. Could they be linked ?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Yep...know all about this as my company is trying to fix the problem.

And my company's service desk has been swamped today because of it.

 

[Eric Potts]

And us dinosaurs who walk round with wallets full of £20's can bask in a moderate degree of smugness.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Barber OUT!

 

[TomandJerry]

Shoppers should "always carry two means of payment", says one expert'

 

[beorhthelm]

Yep...know all about this as my company is trying to fix the problem.

can you say the nature of the cause? the seeminly random impact looks like reduced network capacity.

the missus has fallen out with Lidl over it, not because of the problem but the attitude, not telling any one there was problem then getting shirty with customers who only have cards.

 

[looney]

And us dinosaurs who walk round with wallets full of £20's can bask in a moderate degree of smugness.

Yep drew out money for weekend early today and betting accounts full of money.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

can you say the nature of the cause? the seeminly random impact looks like reduced network capacity.

the missus has fallen out with Lidl over it, not because of the problem but the attitude, not telling any one there was problem then getting shirty with customers who only have cash.

Surely getting shirty with customers who only have cards ?

 

[beorhthelm]

Surely getting shirty with customers who only have cards ?

yes of course.