# An analysis of the Square and Cash App outage

DevFeed: [An analysis of the Square and Cash App outage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/an-analysis-of-the-square-and-cash-app-outage-15496.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/an-analysis-of-the-square-and-cash-app-outage>)

Author: Paul Friedman

Published: 2025-03-05T11:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [payment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment.md>), [payment-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment-processing.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

Square's public postmortem describes a February 26, 2025 system-wide disruption affecting Square payment processing and Cash App services. A security certificate validation problem blocked communication with databases; rolling back the certificate deployment restored functionality, while some reporting and offline-payment issues persisted temporarily.

## Source excerpt

Service Disruption - Public Postmortem [2025/02/26]