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Brex: Critical incident: Mastercard Network Outage

Summary

Brex reported a critical Mastercard Network outage affecting card authorization, causing transactions to be incorrectly declined. It started at 2026-08-15 04:49 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-15 05:53 UTC, lasting 1 h 4 min; Brex said transactions should now be correctly processed.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 99%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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After: Mastercard Network Outage
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-08-15 04:49 UTC
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After: 2026-08-15 05:53 UTC
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After: Money movement: card authorization
AddedUpdateidentified#7
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After: We have identified that transactions may be declined incorrectly due to a Mastercard Network outage.
AddedUpdateresolved#8
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After: Mastercard Network Outage has been resolved, and transactions should now be correctly processed.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Mastercard Network Outage (this change)
Brex reported a critical Mastercard Network outage affecting card authorization, causing transactions to be incorrectly declined. It started at 2026-08-15 04:49 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-15 05:53 UTC, lasting 1 h 4 min; Brex said transactions should now be correctly processed.
Major incident

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