Stripe incident
Elevated declines on Mastercard
Resolved after 2 h 18 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On Stripe’s status page
- Source
- Components
- Acquirers and payment methods
Timeline
- Stripe status page · Reported Elevated declines on Mastercard
- Stripe status page · Identified We're currently investigating elevated error rates and response times affecting MasterCard payment processing.
- Stripe status page · Monitoring As of 18:27 UTC, elevated Mastercard authorization errors have recovered. We're continuing to validate that this issue is fully resolved.
- Stripe status page · Resolved From 16:50 to 18:27 UTC on October 15, 2026, Mastercard payment processing experienced elevated error rates and response times, resulting in increased authorization declines. Failures were highly concentrated in wallet and tokenized transactions. The issue is resolved.
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Elevated declines on Mastercard,” Oct 15, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-stripe-down/incidents/stripe-202610151835/
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