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Global Financial Service Disruptions
Paystack (3D Secure verification)
payment processor · NG · Africa · Paystack Payments Ltd
UnexplainedStatus: resolvedTier 2Severity 1 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified
Paystack reported card payments needing 3D Secure challenges failing on 29 Oct 2026 for about 1.6 hours.
- First disruption
- Oct 29 07:30 UTC
- First public signal
- unknown
- Acknowledged
- unknown
- Restored
- Oct 29 09:06 UTC
- Duration
- 1.6 hours
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
card authScope: single service
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- Card payments requiring 3D Secure verification failing
- DFX classification
- Unexplained (cyber: unconfirmed)
Evidence
- Paystack status page (Atom feed) · 2026-11-05