Stripe outage, 15 October 2026

Elevated declines on Mastercard

Started
Resolved
15 Oct 2026, 20:53 UTC (after 2 h 18 min)
Impact
Not stated
Affected
Acquirers and payment methods

Last update from Stripe

From 16:50 to 18:27 UTC on October 15, 2026, Mastercard payment processing experienced elevated error rates and response times, resulting in increased authorization declines. Failures were highly concentrated in wallet and tokenized transactions. The issue is resolved.

15 Oct 2026, 20:53 UTC

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