{
  "id": 964533,
  "title": "Global Mastercard outage stopping shopping in Sydney",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/global-mastercard-outage-stopping-shopping-in-sydney-964533",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-15T05:40:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/global-mastercard-outage-stopping-shopping-in-sydney-20260815-p60omk.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Service issues website Down Detector recorded thousands of reports of outages for the Commonwealth Bank, Mastercard, ApplePay and Westpac on Saturday afternoon.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Global Mastercard outage stopping shopping in Sydney",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/global-mastercard-outage-stopping-shopping-in-sydney",
        "published": "2026-08-15T05:40:34.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "Breaking: Mastercard reportedly down due to 'global issue'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/breaking-mastercard-reportedly-down-due-to-global-issue",
        "published": "2026-08-15T05:44:48.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}