VISA communicates that the service has already been solved and was due to a problem with the hardware

The problems of VISA have already been corrected and that is, last Friday the service was dropped throughout Europe, due to a problem in the hardware that the company uses to support the service.

This past Friday, we echoed the decline in the VISA service throughout Europe. The problem hardly affected Spain, because the VISA network is supported by the Redsys system, but it did affect foreigners who are on vacation or for work in the country. The problem did not make sense, because it was not a relatively critical date, with a large volume of transactions. The service has been reactivated throughout the weekend and the problems have already been corrected.

The VISA service crash was due to a problem with the servers.

As expected, the initial lack of information caused mass hysteria and a possible cyber attack was quickly considered. The two variants, an attack that could have ended in a denial of services or DDoS attack or a computer attack that tried to sneak into the systems and steal user data, to use it or sell it to third parties. This was not the case, as the problem would have originated in the hardware used.

VISA has apologized to all the partners who work with the company and especially to all the users who have been affected by the fall in services. The company guarantees that the card service is already fully operational and is active '24 hours a day, 365 days a year'. To explain everything, the company has released a statement on the matter and thus, clarify all doubts:

The problem was the result of a hardware error. We have no reason to think that it is associated with any unauthorized access or malicious event