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