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Point of sale merchant Clover has been offline for several hours

The outage is caused by problems at First Data, a card merchant owned by Fiserv - will impact other regions.

Kevin Beaumont

As the US wakes up, the First Data payment merchant outage impacts will spread.

Clover’s latest update.

Clover is owned by Fiserv, who also own First Data.

@GossiTheDog can the impact become worse as people start overloading upstream services of the failure with requests (due to frustration)?

@GossiTheDog the reverse corporations in a trenchcoat.
One corporation acting as if it was many