Visa: Rare networking switch failure to blame for payments glitch earlier this month

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Rare fault meant identifying and rectifying cause of problem took longer than usual

Payments processor Visa has revealed that a rare networking switch failure was to blame for the prolonged outage at the beginning of the month. The outage caused Visa credit and debit card payments...

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