Google has issued a fix that changes the behavior of Google Wallet prepaid cards to prevent abuse. The ability to add new prepaid cards to Google Wallet has been restored, and the mobile payment system is back in business.

Following revelations that an unauthorized user could potentially gain access to funds available in a Google Wallet account, Google took proactive steps to prevent any such abuse while it worked on a fix. Google temporarily disabled provisioning of prepaid cards while it worked on a permanent fix.