Outage in Payfast
Mastercard 3D Secure Issues
Resolved MajorIncident Report
A problem during the 3D Secure leg of card transactions has been identified; Specifically Mastercard issued credit cards are failing authentication currently.
This is impacting card processing on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms.
We are in contact with External Providers on the issue.
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RESOLVED
3 days ago - at 07/15/2026 09:09AM
This incident has been resolved.
IDENTIFIED
3 days ago - at 07/15/2026 07:20AM
A problem during the 3D Secure leg of card transactions has been identified; Specifically Mastercard issued credit cards are failing authentication currently.
This is impacting card processing on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms.
We are in contact with External Providers on the issue.
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