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by hackerfactor1 1012 days ago
Still down after 15 hours? Sounds like one of:

(A) Ransomware or DDoS.

(B) Unexpected single point of failure (like a critical piece of hardware) and they need to rush-order a replacement.

(C) They can't identify the cause. (Doubtful.)

or

(D) Cascading failure. When they fix one thing, something else takes them down. Like a large queue of pending jobs that floods and crashes them when they come back up.

On one hand, I'm glad I don't depend on Square for purchases.

On the other hand, who's to say that my own payment provider can't have this same kind of problem?