PayFast experienced a major incident on July 15, 2026 affecting 3D Secure and 3D Secure, lasting 1h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
3D Secure3D Secure
Update timeline
- identified Jul 15, 2026, 07:20 AM UTC
A problem during the 3D Secure leg of card transactions has been identified; Specifically Mastercard issued credit cards are failing authentication currently. This is impacting card processing on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms. We are in contact with External Providers on the issue.
- resolved Jul 15, 2026, 09:09 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.