Payment processor Equens is struggling with a rural pinstoring. A large number of atms would since Wednesday morning no longer function correctly after the roll-out of an update. The implementation of a patch to correct the issues.
The fault would, according to a spokesman of Equens Wednesday morning started. Initially, this would have occurred at approximately five hundred atms at retailers. After ten transactions would the atms are out of service. Around noon were already 15.000 pinapparaten out of action.
A spokesman for Currence, the company that is the brand Pin in your hands and the payments by Equens to be provided, states that a software update, which by Equens was rolled out, ensured that the atm is not connected with the payment gateway. Now would be working on the rollout of a patch. Currence expects that in the course of Wednesday afternoon the fault has been corrected should be.
Update 13:44: After the roll-out of a patch would be the pinstoring have been addressed, so reports the bbc news.