PayFast experienced a major incident on December 5, 2025 affecting 3D Secure, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
3D Secure
Update timeline
- resolved Dec 05, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC
Between 10:48-11:10 this morning, users on the Gateway platform will have experienced 3D secure related problems for card processing. This was due to a global Cloudflare outage that resolved at 11:10. Processing for 3D has fully recovered.