Stripe outage, 28 October 2026

Elevated Issuing errors from 17:13 UTC

Started
Status
Ongoing: Identified
Impact
Minor
Affected
Stripe API, Banking-as-a-service

Is this still happening?

Yes. Stripe still lists it as identified; last update 28 Oct 2026, 18:29 UTC.

Right now: Stripe reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 28 Oct, 18:47 UTC) Live Stripe status

Last update from Stripe

We’re currently seeing elevated errors related to newly created Issuing cards beginning at 17:13 UTC. We’ve identified the cause, and are working on a fix.

28 Oct 2026, 18:29 UTC

Read the full incident on the official Stripe status page

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