Cardstream incident
Increase in Authorisation Connection Errors
Cardstream experienced a notice incident on October 2, 2025 affecting Cardstream Payment Gateway, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Cardstream Payment Gateway
Update timeline
- resolved Oct 02, 2025, 11:26 AM UTC
From 01 October 23:55 – 02 October 01:05 BST, Cardstream saw an increase in connection errors for the below Acquirers: - AIB - AMEX - Barclaycard - Cetler - Elavon - Firstdata/Fiserv - HSBC/Global Payments - Lloyds Cardnet - Trust Payments - Worldpay This was due to a change released by a third-party connector. Cardstream saw authorisations return to normal levels from 01:05.