The Guardian reported that VISA’s payment network has crashed across the UK and Europe, sparking chaos as transactions are failing or being denied.
The company confirmed that it is suffering an outage and it is investigating the cause.
The scale of the outage remains unclear, although Visa customers across Europe have taken to Twitter to say that payments are not being accepted in shops and petrol stations.
A statement from VISA quoted by The Mirror said that “Visa is currently experiencing a service disruption. This incident is preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed. We are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation.”
Dispatch based on reports from The Guardian, The Mirror and The Independent.
