# First Data outage reports and status

Canonical page: https://iszdown.com/now/first-data

Status: Current availability unconfirmed

24-hour window (UTC): 2026-10-18T06:30:00.000Z to 2026-10-19T06:30:00.000Z

Recorded outage reports in this window: 0

Last successful estimated-activity check: No usable observation available

First Data Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company's STAR Network provided nationwide domestic debit acceptance at more than 2 million retail POS, ATM, and Online outlets for nearly a third of all U.S. debit cards. First Data has six million merchants, the largest in the payments industry. The company handles 45% of all US credit and debit transactions, including handling prepaid gift card processing for many US brands such as Starbucks. It processes around 2,800 transactions per second and $2.2 trillion in card transactions annually, with an 80% market share in gas and groceries in 2014. First Data's SpendTrend Report is a key shopping metric for national news networks such as WSJ, USA Today, ESPN, The New York Times, Vox Media, and Bloomberg. In October 2015, First Data returned to public markets, selling 160 million shares in the New York Stock Exchange's biggest IPO of that year.

## How to interpret this page

Estimated down reports are based on US Google Trends problem-intent searches. Values are relative activity from 0 to 100, not counts of submitted reports. The HTML chart averages samples into ten-minute intervals. Partial samples are excluded and missing samples are not invented.

Recorded outage reports and estimated activity are separate signals. Neither confirms that every user is affected. Missing or stale data does not establish that a service is working.

Methodology: https://iszdown.com/methodology

## Citation

Cite [First Data on Iszdown](https://iszdown.com/now/first-data), include your access time and the observation time above, and qualify estimated activity as an estimate. Recheck before describing current status. Iszdown is independent of the monitored provider.

## Estimated activity samples

No usable Google Trends samples are available for this service in this window.

## Evidence and recovery

Current availability unconfirmed. More recent independent evidence is needed.

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

## Website measurements

Successful sampled checks (24h): 0% (0/10). Restricted checks: 0. Median response: Unknown ms. P95 response: Unknown ms.

These are sampled public website checks from one US server, not continuous uptime or authenticated app/API tests. Missing data stays unknown.


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