Absa clients have reported that they are unable to shop online with their MasterCard credit cards, as the 3D Secure system is offline.<\/p>\n
3D Secure is an authentication protocol used by banks and card companies. MasterCard’s\u00a03D Secure system is called SecureCode.<\/p>\n
Shopping\u00a0online with a credit card typically involves a\u00a0bank’s 3D Secure system. A one-time PIN is sent to a shopper’s phone by SMS, which is\u00a0used to authorise the transaction.<\/p>\n
According to Absa clients, the bank’s call centre said\u00a0the downtime was due to MasterCard updating the SecureCode systems.<\/p>\n
However, MasterCard told MyBroadband it does not host SecureCode on its servers.<\/p>\n
Instead, it\u00a0ensures that third-party providers’ solutions they provide to\u00a0merchants,\u00a0acquirers, and issuers such as Absa are compliant with its standards.<\/p>\n
“We are aware of an issue with Absa cardholders and that the bank is investigating this,” said MasterCard.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm that MasterCard\u2019s network is stable and functioning normally and that no updates are being done.”<\/p>\n
MasterCard said it could not comment on behalf of the bank.<\/p>\n
Absa did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Absa clients have reported that they are unable to shop online with their MasterCard credit cards, as the 3D Secure system is offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":172580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[29508,2186,35,7065,40296],"class_list":["post-192680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-3d-secure","tag-absa","tag-headline","tag-mastercard","tag-mastercard-securecode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192684,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192680\/revisions\/192684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}