ICENews ALERT: Authorize.Net Goes DOWN Due To Major Fisher Fire & Turns to Twitter!
UPDATE: As of approx. 2:11 pm et. Authorize.net has reported that processing is BACK ONLINE, while the website, is still experiencing some recovery.
I and MANY other internet retailers use services for credit card processing. Today due to a MAJOR fire Authorize.net, our credit card processor, is completely offline.
Many sites hosted at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza are offline amid widespread reports of a “significant fire event” at the facility. The largest impact has been downtime at the payment portal Authorize.net, which has been offline for hours, meaning that its merchants have been unable to process credit card payments through their web sites.
I woke to the world of Twitter bursting with the news that Authorize.net was DOWN! After communication was disrupted on their servers, Authorize.net officials quickly created a Twitter ID for the company to communicate status. At this hour things are STILL DOWN for the processor and I am sure millions of $$$ are being lost for retailers.
The vice president of operations for Fisher Communications Inc., Rob Dunlop, says a fire at an electrical vault broke out around 11 p.m. Thursday, forcing the evacuation of the building.
Elevators were running on generator power but everything else was candle-lit when an electrical fire at Fisher Plaza blew up the Belltown grid shortly before midnight last night. Power’s back on at Seattlest International Headquarters high atop Second Avenue, but not at the various websites hosted on servers at Fisher.
The fire at Fisher Plaza disrupted television and radio stations that broadcast from the building near the Seattle Center and affected a server farm that provides service to multiple Web sites.
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