Breaking: Nationwide Credit Card Outage

People around the United States are reporting that credit card readers are down.

People on social media from California to New Jersey are reporting credit card processing outages. The mainstream media has yet to pick up on the story, so we wanted to give you a quick notice before the banks close. You may want to hit an ATM before shopping or going out tonight. As we mentioned in our cyberwar guide, having cash on hand is good preparedness. (Thanks to Stephanie Arnold for the heads up.) Comments are open to all, so let us know if you’re having credit card trouble. You can also join our Discord server, where we first learned about this.

Weird Soup @Cosmicpixle

Credit card processing companies like Verifone have been knocked offline from California to New Jersey and there's *ZERO* news coverage whatsoever. It seems like a significant outage.

However, don’t jump to conclusions about the cause just yet. Last month in Germany, older Verifone H5000 POS terminals were taken offline when their certificates suddenly expired. The current outage could be related to that.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @jwildeboer

One single type of payment terminal (the Verifone H5000), a rather old platform, officially announced End of Life 2018 with some sort of support until 2023, brought down big parts of card payment all over Germany as one of the embedded certificates expired unnoticed on Tuesday.

Here are more reports we’ve seen on social media:

Samosa 💬🔱 @SamosaThicc

@Cinemark I can't buy tickets through your website. Is your credit card system down?? @JurassicWorld They ruining opportunity to watch the premiere 😭 I'm trying to get good seats @prattprattpratt 😭😭

Francis Tainter @FrancisTainter

Nothing like being in a packed grocery store during a giant credit card processing outage. Pure millennial chaos.

Gino @grillogino

Wow I am amazed with the women behind me at Lowes. All the credit card machines went down at the same time. She took $20 out of her wallet and paid for my items. #randomactsofkindness #thankyou

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Frank, so? 🌩 @Apoc13

@Cosmicpixle Massachusetts too