Visa outage: payment chaos after card network crashes

Company says it is investigating as transactions fail across UK and Europe 10.38pm BST10.22pm BST Visa said the outage was caused by a hardware failure and was not a result of “unauthorised access or malicious event”.Five hours after an initial statement, the company said its payment systems were almost back to normal.Earlier today, Visa had a system failure that impacted customers across Europe.Our goal is to ensure all Visa cards work reliably 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We fe