The Visa payment system has fallen throughout Europe, due to an incident of unknown origin, although for now, some type of computer attack is ruled out.
Right now the Visa card payment service has been interrupted throughout the afternoon of this Friday, apparently by a collapse in the payment operator's network. Visa's problem is at the European level, it is not isolated from Spain. The operations that are being carried out are giving an error in the operation or are being denied, so the problem is not with our cards, but with the operator.
Visa's payment system is down throughout Europe.
At this time, the company has not given data on why the collapse of its payment gateway is due. There are no signs of a possible hack to the central servers, at this time, although anything could be. The most likely would be problems with the servers, which would not be supporting operations, due to technical problems, but they are speculations, since Visa has only reported the problem at the European level, nothing more
'We are currently experiencing a service outage preventing some Visa transactions from being processed in Europe. We are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation '
It is being reported that operations in most payment systems would be working, since in Spain the Redsys payment processing system is used and this would be working normally, although it is true that operations outside the country, mostly , they wouldn't be working.
We must emphasize that this problem is not due to any saturation of the service, since VisaNet, the network behind the debit cards, allows managing up to 65.000 operations per second and if necessary, additional servers are activated, but this happens in very specific periods, like Christmas, not on a relatively common day.
We are currently experiencing a service disruption which 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. We will keep you updated.
— VisaNewsEurope (@VisaNewsEurope) June 1, 2018
