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Payment Outage Hits Major Retailers: Cards and Apple Pay Failing

August 15, 2026 by Chief Editor

Payment services resumed across Australia after a Saturday afternoon disruption left some customers unable to complete purchases at major retailers, with Mastercard blaming a “scheduled system update” for the outage. According to Mastercard, the update caused transactions to be declined for a period of time before the situation was resolved and all systems were working … Read more

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