MasterCard Has Two Days of Technical Difficulties

Technical problems at Mastercard has affected thousands of customers transactions over the last week.

Originally thought to only have experienced difficulties on Saturday the 29th of September, MasterCard said in a statement to The Register that it had experienced technical problems associated with issuing bank submitted data on the 25/26 September which were responsible for the delay in transactions on those dates.

Processing service provider, Streamline insisted that with 94% of transactions going ahead uninterrupted only a small number of customers’ cards were affected.

Streamline are nearly certain that the problem has been solved but, according to their status page, “will confirm this with a further update to this page when we have confirmation from all parties”