Payment processing returned to typical levels by 4:41 PM ET; as described in our previous update, the earlier alert traced to one customer completing an extra card-verification step on a single purchase, and all other payments processed normally throughout.

Automated monitoring flagged a payment alert on the US account around 1:48 PM ET, based on two failed authentication attempts. Investigation traced this to a single customer's card retrying a security verification step twice on one purchase between 1:21 and 1:40 PM ET, which succeeded by 1:41 PM ET; no other customers or purchases were affected, and payment processing is otherwise working normally. We are continuing to monitor.