Credit- and debit-processing agency Moneris confirmed it skilled a community outage on Saturday amid widespread reviews of issues with buyer fee terminals in a number of elements of Canada.
In an electronic mail to CBC News, the corporate stated the outage lasted about an hour and a half.
“Earlier this afternoon, Moneris skilled an intermittent community outage affecting our prospects’ means to course of transactions for roughly 90 minutes,” a spokesperson stated within the electronic mail.
“We have resolved the community outage and returned transaction processing to regular. Merchants could expertise some transaction slowness whereas programs catch up.”
People posting on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter, reported issues in a number of elements of Canada, together with British Columbia, Winnipeg and Mississauga, Ont.
Moneris didn’t say how widespread the outage was, or what brought about it.
“This affected a lot of our retailers throughout the nation. We proceed to analyze the basis reason behind the problem,” an organization spokesperson stated in a later electronic mail.
“There are not any indications this seems to be cyber-attack associated and all transaction programs are functioning usually once more.”
The outage prompted B.C. Ferries to situation a journey advisory on account of issues on board its fleet.
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—@BCFerries
B.C. Ferries has since reported that its issues have been resolved.Moneris’s web site was additionally down for a part of Saturday. The firm says it processes for greater than 325,000 service provider places in Canada.
