Mercado Pago incident

PERU - Contingencies

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Mercado Pago experienced a major incident on March 27, 2026 affecting Payment Processing, lasting 40m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 27, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 27, 2026, 08:21 AM UTC
Duration
40m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 27, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

Affected components

Payment Processing

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 27, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

    The following payment methods are experiencing trouble in payment processing: VISA, VISA Debit (Peru). The payments are being received correctly and will be processed when the payment method is live again. Payments processed through binary mode will be rejected automatically.

  2. resolved Mar 27, 2026, 08:21 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.