Stripe experienced elevated authentication requests from issuing banks in the UK and France, impacting card transactions requiring Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). The issue affected acquirers and payment methods for 41 minutes between 11:40 UTC and 14:35 UTC on May 8th, 2026. The authentication request issues have been resolved.
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Between 11:40 UTC and 14:35 UTC we observed elevated Authentication Requests for card transactions in SCA scope. This issue has now been resolved.
We are currently observing elevated Authentication Requests related to issuing banks in the UK and France which is impacting some card transactions.
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