Many shops and businesses have been unable to process Visa cards today. It seems ATM's are unaffected but chip and pin and contactless are. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44335804
Interestingly I had a slight glitch with Visa yesterday. The payment site claimed I'd not put the right code in. The numbers were right though, I re-entered the exact numbers a second time and it went through. It's never happened on that site before.
It appears that the problem remains unresolved. Live Updates: https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...chaos-after-card-network-crashes-live-updates
"Visa says the widespread outage which affected customers in the UK, Europe and abroad was caused by a “hardware failure” and was not the result of unauthorised access. Cardholders can now use their Visa cards, with services now operating at “close to normal levels”..." https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...chaos-after-card-network-crashes-live-updates
Visa blames 'rare' networking glitch for payments borkage Letter to Nicky Morgan MP explains cause of prolonged June outage June 21, 2018 https://www.theinquirer.net/inquire...s-rare-networking-glitch-for-payments-borkage
