Sardine incident

Sanctions / PEP / Adverse Media Screening outage

Resolved on December 8, 2025.

resolved Dec 08, 2025, 07:47 PM UTC

Summary On December 8, 2025, Sardine's AML screening integration service experienced two outages affecting Sanctions / PEP / Adverse Media Screening. First Outage: Start Time: 2025-12-08 06:13:05 UTC End Time: 2025-12-08 08:56:05 UTC Second (minor) Outage (only a few transactions were affected during this long period): Start Time: 2025-12-08 13:58:26 UTC End Time: 2025-12-08 18:09:22 UTC What Happened? Sardine’s screening partner experienced an outage within their product resulting in some screening API responses being returned as NULL for the screening requests. During the incident, Sardine responded with reason code SSFD, indicating the screening failure. If you have an alert queue configured for this reason code, you may have seen an increased number of alerts because of the incident. We recommend to rerun all the events during this period for the correct screening results to an inquiry.

Started
Dec 08, 2025, 06:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 08, 2025, 06:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Dec 08, 2025, 06:00 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Dec 08, 2025, 07:47 PM UTC

    Summary On December 8, 2025, Sardine's AML screening integration service experienced two outages affecting Sanctions / PEP / Adverse Media Screening. First Outage: Start Time: 2025-12-08 06:13:05 UTC End Time: 2025-12-08 08:56:05 UTC Second (minor) Outage (only a few transactions were affected during this long period): Start Time: 2025-12-08 13:58:26 UTC End Time: 2025-12-08 18:09:22 UTC What Happened? Sardine’s screening partner experienced an outage within their product resulting in some screening API responses being returned as NULL for the screening requests. During the incident, Sardine responded with reason code SSFD, indicating the screening failure. If you have an alert queue configured for this reason code, you may have seen an increased number of alerts because of the incident. We recommend to rerun all the events during this period for the correct screening results to an inquiry.

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