Credit Card Payment Systems Go Offline For Businesses Across U.S.

phalse phace writes: You know that cashless society that payment network operators, banks and businesses want? It doesn't work when your payment processor can't process those digital payments.

As reported by Business Insider, "businesses across the US are accepting only cash as their credit-card payments systems are down.

Fiserv, one of the leading payments providers in the US, told Insider, "A widespread internet service provider outage has impacted multiple businesses today." Ann Cave, a company spokesperson, added in an email: "Some Fiserv services that rely on internet connectivity were interrupted."

Customers on Twitter reported outages at Ikea, Forever 21, McDonald's, and Popeyes, as well as at local places like a car wash and the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.

Customers called out Fiserv on Twitter. "Our credit card payment processing system is currently out of service," the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy tweeted. "The outage occurred with First Data/Fiserv, which is one of the largest payment processing systems in the country."

Down Detector, which tracks outages, reported an increase in problems for people with Visa or Mastercard credit cards.