OREANDA-NEWS.The failure of the payment systems, which was observed on December 24 in a number of European countries, did not affect the operation of the international payment system Mastercard in Russia. This was reported to the Russian media in the press service of the payment system.

"We checked the situation. There were no failures. The Mastercard network, as well as all services and products of the payment system, are operating normally", Mastercard said.

On December 24 evening, on the Downdetector service page, which monitors the operation of popular Internet resources, information appeared about Visa and Mastercard malfunctions in the USA and Europe, especially in Germany and the UK. The representative office of the Visa international payment system in Russia later denied reports of problems in its operation.

The international payment system Mastercard said that the leak of customer data from the Mastercard bonus program did not affect Russian cardholders in any way.