Bitvavo incident
Technical Difficulties Affecting the ID verification for German customers
Bitvavo experienced a minor incident on May 5, 2026 affecting Onboarding, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 05, 2026, 07:49 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating an issue affecting the onboarding process on our platform. Users may not receive their OTP when going through the signature step during onboarding. Our team is working on a fix and will update you as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Affected components Onboarding (Degraded performance)
- monitoring May 05, 2026, 08:22 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring Our third party dependency has implemented the necessary fixes and confirmed that everything is working as expected with the OTP code during the signature part of the German onboarding and we also see this on our side. We will keep monitoring the situation for now. If you experience any further issues or have questions, please contact our support team. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Affected components Onboarding (Operational)
- resolved May 05, 2026, 08:37 AM UTC
Status: Resolved After thorough monitoring to ensure that everything is functioning as expected we can now close the incident. If you encounter any further issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Thank you for again your cooperation and understanding throughout this process. Affected components Onboarding (Operational)