the Guardian – January 16, 2018
ISSUE: Shops, football stadiums and taxis unable to take payments from frustrated customers
IMPACT: “Seeing as I have to take card payments by law as a London cabbie, your system failure means I can’t work…”
IMPACT: supermarkets such as Waitrose
IMPACT: Reading Football Club… could not take any card payments at Madejski Stadium
ROOT CAUSE: a “global outage” on its card machines