Moneris Network Outage Sparks Frustration Across Canada

A network disruption involving Moneris, a debit and credit card processing company

caused frustration for many people on Saturday.

Canadians across the country turned to social media to express their inability to use their cards at various retailers.

Numerous social media posts pointed to Moneris as the source of the outage, and the company remained silent until just after 3 p.m. Atlantic Time.

Moneris addressed the situation in a social media post, stating, "Moneris has resolved a network outage and restored normal transaction processing.

Merchants may experience some transaction slowness as systems catch up.