Block Says No Evidence of Data Breach by Square Outage

Block says the combination of updates prevented its systems from properly communicating with each other, which ultimately caused last week’s Square outage.

• No evidence of outage as a cybersecurity event or that any seller or buyer data was compromised
• Systems have fully recovered and are operating normally
• Taking steps to protect against such issues, including expanding offline payment capabilities
• NOTE: Block Slumps as Square Platform Deals With System Outage

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