Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Gérardmer	Sign in	3 hours ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	1 day ago
Lodève	Errors	1 day ago
Brisbane	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kim (@kimberyy_2004) reported 17 seconds ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal I’m honestly so frustrated right now. I’ve been trying to use my PayPal account normally, but I’m suddenly having issues with my account and I can’t figure out what’s going on. I’ve tried contacting customer service and I’m still not getting a clear solution.

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  Alan XZ 🔞(COMMIS PAUSE) (@ALANExtraZone) reported 21 seconds ago

  Hey everyone, I’m going to have to put my commis on hold since PayPal and my bank are giving me some trouble. 🫠

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  💉 star ཐི ₍^.ˬˬ.^₎ ཋྀ (@umbreneon1) reported 1 minute ago

  I only got wise and paypal for payment methods and oaypal lowkey tweaking out i think so im scared to open commissions🤔+motivation issue

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  hamza abaoui (@abaoui_ham64421) reported 7 minutes ago

  @QudsNen @Au10tix's biometric processing for @PayPal raises major digital rights issues. Their links to Israeli intelligence and past data breaches threaten Palestinian privacy and data sovereignty.

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  𝕆𝕞𝕒𝕣 (@o_w7jj) reported 7 minutes ago

  I have $199 currently being held in my PayPal account. I’ve contacted support several times, but the issue has not been resolved yet. I’d really appreciate your help in reviewing my case and resolving it as soon as possible. Thank you @AskPayPal

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  0.1% (@sandy4kad) reported 10 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel stood in front of Stanford students in 2014 and told them competition is for losers. He had already founded PayPal, co-founded Palantir, and backed Facebook. The room was full of people who had spent their entire lives winning competitions. He told them the game itself was the problem. Create X dollars of value for the world. Capture Y percent of X. Those two numbers are independent. Airlines generated $195 billion in U.S. revenue that year. Google did $50 billion. Cumulative profits of the entire U.S. airline industry over a hundred years: roughly zero. Google’s market cap already dwarfed the sector. Perfect competition looks efficient on a chalkboard. In practice it destroys capital. Monopoly looks dangerous on a chalkboard. In practice it compounds for decades. Non-monopolists lie by shrinking the market: “We’re the only British restaurant in Palo Alto.” Monopolists lie by expanding it: “We’re just one advertising company in a $500 billion global market.” The actual move is the opposite of what business school teaches. Start in a market so small it looks worthless. Own it completely. Then expand in concentric circles. PayPal began with 20,000 eBay power sellers. Facebook began with 10,000 Harvard students. Both looked like toys until the circle grew. Most of a technology company’s value lives in cash flows ten to twenty years out. Growth is easy to measure. Durability is what the market actually prices. “All happy companies are different. All unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness of competition.” The lecture is free on YouTube. The book is $15. Every framework fits on a napkin. Almost every founder on X posts the title while competing in the same crowded category as everyone else. The lecture is free. The willingness to walk past the crowded door and take the empty gate nobody is watching is a much rarer commodity than the advice itself.

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  ZK (@zk_afc2) reported 11 minutes ago

  I don’t use PayPal Goods & Services because funds can be held for a long time and I’ve had issues with chargebacks in the past I prefer payment methods that don’t put either side through lengthy disputes

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  Alice Clayne (@GlotLife) reported 14 minutes ago

  My Glitch poster arrived and it says the Animegaz arrived too... but it didn't show up yet. I'm praying it's a mistake on how its typed out on PayPal tracking. I got the poster from the door the same minute the door rang so I don't think it could of been stolen like that, idk.

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  Soren⁴²⁰ (Fokin Graduado💀) (@Soren_cio) reported 18 minutes ago

  @tartagliagita But if it’s something digital like a commission, then there’s no problem only the PayPal-style intermediary or smthn like that

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  Mark Jarmuth (@JarmuthMark) reported 26 minutes ago

  @freecashcom I've tried freecash and it's a complete sham. 25% charge for PayPal cash out. Games rigged to be impossible to beat without a fortune spent on in app purchases. Rewards don't track, are devalued as players near completion and pend for 2 weeks. Surveys all have tech issues

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  Muffy / Closed comms (@AbsoluteMuffy) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ZapotX @PayPal Maybe, maybe not, I have friends who do the same thing and haven't had any problems, and besides, paypal won't tell me why

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  Gina (@SnowFrostoq69) reported 28 minutes ago

  I have her attempting to save a down payment on PayPal card

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  sp (@spatte84) reported 29 minutes ago

  @PayPal fix your user interface I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve accidentally doubled clicked when transaction is loading only for it to submit payment before I was ready

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  Vicky Sterling (@sirmayorricky) reported 31 minutes ago

  @cur8orofearth @maddoxrules @TomFewhlery Not a partisan issue? Maybe I'll grant you that. But "no federal government" involved? While Palantir is joined at the hip with so-called "immigration and customs enforcement"? The PayPal mafia has had this in the works for at least a decade, and they own this presidency

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  liam. (@liambraus) reported 32 minutes ago

  JD Ross lore is actually insane > show up at WashU on two scholarships > study finance and computer science at the same time > freshman year: start running a campus apparel company > also buy a moving company off some other students > graduate 2011 with two degrees and two businesses 2011 > join Addepar as one of the first employees > end up VP of Product > meet Keith Rabois > Rabois tries to hire him to run risk at Square > says no 2014 > co-found Opendoor at 23 with Rabois and Eric Wu > the pitch: skip the agent, we'll just buy your house > everyone says real estate will never work online > raise from Khosla Ventures > scale to 1,500+ employees > buy and sell tens of thousands of homes > Opendoor goes public in December 2020 2019 > leave, become a GP at Atomic > the studio behind Hims & Hers and Homebound > co-found three more companies out of it: Villa Homes, Playbook, Butter > then co-found Royal, where you buy royalty shares in actual songs 2023 > pick the next entrenched industry: insurance brokerage > $500B, basically unchanged for 40 years > the problem: your broker earns a % of your premium > which means they get paid more when you overpay > co-found WithCoverage and charge a flat fee instead > 700+ companies switch, including GoPuff, Eight Sleep, Blank Street > Hungryroot cuts $300K a year. Thirty Madison over $200K January 2026 > raise $42M Series B > led by Sequoia and Khosla > Keith Rabois writes the check > same guy he started Opendoor with, 12 years later > also the first time Rabois and Roelof Botha have teamed up since PayPal August 2026 > ship WithCoverage 2.0

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  JakeOnGrowth (@jakeongrowth) reported 34 minutes ago

  I've only ever had one job in my life. It lasted a few months, and I quit on the spot when I was 17. A week before, £3,000 had landed in my PayPal account. At the time I was working a few hours a week at Morrisons for about £180 a month. Stacking shelves, standing on the till. Then I made almost 17x that in a week from something I built myself. On my own time, with nothing but my phone and an idea. So I stood there doing the maths in my head, walked up to my manager and quit on the spot. No notice. No plan for what came next. To this day, that's still the only job I've ever had. That same year I started sixth form, and instead of slowing the business down I kept it running through the whole thing. Working on it before school. During lunch instead of eating with everyone else. Last thing before bed, replying to people who wanted to join. My teachers noticed. They weren't happy. A couple of them pulled me aside and told me straight. You're distracted. This is just a phase. If you actually want to go somewhere in life, focus on what matters. I understood why they said it. I just didn't agree. So I kept going. Still came out with three A's at the end of it. Looking back, that year taught me something about myself. I've always been a risk taker. It's just how I'm wired. Everyone around me was following the same path. School, uni, grad job, climb the ladder. And I get why. It's safe. It's what we're told to do. But I kept choosing the high risk option instead. Betting on the thing that was working over the thing that was expected. And every big step forward in my career since has come from making that same trade. I remember watching an old interview with Steve Jobs where he talked about starting Apple with Wozniak. He said they realised they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. That's exactly how I felt at 17. And honestly, it's how I still feel every single day. Because the worst thing that can happen is you lose it all and start over. Except this time with more knowledge, more experience, and everything to gain all over again. That's the whole trade. Limited downside, unlimited upside. Most people never take it. Not because the risk is too big, but because the story about the risk is.

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  BIG TRAP‼️😎 (@BattleRapTrap) reported 35 minutes ago

  Maaaan i remember paypal had a bank error in my favor on some monopoly ****..i made a withdrawal n noticed it didnt cone out my account..so i did it again..n again..reached atm limit n went to walmart n did cash back..ended up wit a lil over a stack extra..that account closed now

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  "مَـــدمُوزِيلْ👒 (@Mademoisele89) reported 37 minutes ago

  @PayPal We need to speed up and resolve cases and conflicts and not slow down the rights of customers who trusted you …

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  Mekdes Andarge (@andarge96093) reported 37 minutes ago

  @XEthanai Today I was login to my PayPal account and it was staying long and my airtime finished so I had to out and buy airtime but I will enter and I will wait until it finished setting up okey sorry , I mean it but I need one option I have book not card and asked to link my card .

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  . (@DatMLBro) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Fosudo The issue isn’t just Nigeria’s reputation. India has its own fraud and financial crime problems, yet PayPal serves them. The difference is leverage: India can push back. Nigeria’s weak institutions often leave us begging for access instead of demanding fair treatment.

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  Worth Wells (@WWWIII) reported 38 minutes ago

  @CaptBob_Nomadic @ros577 @AmericanAir tagging a business on X or other socials seems like the best way to get a response these days, I went round and round with PayPal over an issue for a month, one post on X and all of a sudden they were eager to resolve the issue.

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  Hashir khan (@Hashirkhanmwrt) reported 43 minutes ago

  Freelancing in Pakistan isn't easy money - PayPal still doesn't officially operate here - Frequent internet outages & slow speeds - Unstable electricity disrupting deadlines - Currency devaluation shrinking real income Talent isn't the problem. Infrastructure is. #Freelancing

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  CrunchyFoamy (@WhiskeyBiscuit) reported 44 minutes ago

  Hey @Safeway could you please fix your app? Most recent issue…won’t let you select a payment type. Clicking on a payment type displays $0.00 rather than the last four digits of the payment. Advancing sends you back to the select payment type page. Selecting PayPal and…

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  Dan ◣ ◢ (@dan0991adamz) reported 51 minutes ago

  @bantsrus2 @SkyBet So you laid down the marker, Raul won’t score 10 goals this season ? £100 he does score 10. I lose I PayPal you, you lose you PayPal me ? Put your money where your mouth is.

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  FGN (@FGN_Fuma) reported 53 minutes ago

  @brianlfc0210 Just wait till people realise Samsung, IPhone, PayPal, Google, Coca Cola, Google maps, and the majority of Tech and Apps are made in some part due to Israel, Bet they have no problem using them all.

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  Frank LaCroix (Frank is my pen name) (@lylemurphy18389) reported 53 minutes ago

  Banks used to be heavyweight investments. Not so much anymore. Look at the last 138 days: XLF (Financials) is now behaving almost like XLU (Utilities) — slow, low-growth, defensive. Meanwhile fintech and crypto keep taking share: • Payment apps (PayPal, Venmo, Chime, X Money…) • Digital banking • DeFi / crypto rails • Even newer players moving into underwriting Traditional banks are losing the energy that used to make them cyclical leaders. Capital and growth are flowing elsewhere. The sector chart makes it pretty clear. Anyone else seeing this shift?

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  IT Guy (@T3chFalcon) reported 54 minutes ago

  Did you know there's a type of phishing attack that defeats MFA completely. It's called a reverse proxy phishing kit and it's one of the fastest-growing attack techniques in cybersecurity. Traditional phishing works by using fake login page. you type your password. attacker gets it. if you have MFA enabled, the stolen password alone is useless. attacker gets stopped at the second gate. reverse proxy is different. instead of a fake page, the attacker sets up a live proxy server between you and the real website. when you click the phishing link, you connect to the attacker's server. the server connects to the real Microsoft, Google, or Okta on your behalf. it fetches the real login page and serves it directly to you, pixel for pixel in real time. you're looking at the actual login page. you type your real password. the proxy relays it to Microsoft. Microsoft sends back an MFA prompt. the proxy relays that to you. you approve it. Microsoft sends back a session cookie. the proxy intercepts the cookie before it reaches your browser. You're logged in, so is the attacker using the same session. Tools used: Evilginx, Modlishka, Muraena. all open source. all free. all with pre-built templates for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Okta, and PayPal. commercial versions: EvilProxy, Tycoon 2FA, Mamba 2FA, Starkiller. Sold as subscription services on Telegram. Reverse proxy phishing surged 139% between September 2025 and March 2026, nearly 1 in 4 phishing links now carries a reverse proxy payload. 18 US universities hit last year. Microsoft 365 campaigns targeting thousands of organizations globally. The only authentication method that stops this completely: FIDO2 passkeys and hardware security keys. They bind credentials to the real domain. The proxy can't replay them because the credential was never issued for the proxy's domain. Everything else, SMS codes, authenticator apps, push notifications can all be relayed.

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  Warmaster (@MrAntiHero1) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Vicer0yal I am not seeing anything pop up at all in paypal or ko-fi so not sure what the issue is tbh. I appreciate it anyways though.

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  Jack (@Hammers6021) reported 55 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk I tried to order something just now (a build and battle box for brilliant stars) and I got the same payment error that I had during the 30th booster bundle drop. Tried mobile and laptop with Apple Pay, credit card and PayPal.

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  Sɪɴʙᴀᴅ Sᴛᴀʀᴅᴜsᴛ☢️🎨『V-Artist』 (@Sinbadstardust) reported 56 minutes ago

  @BubblePuppyVT It is a paypal issue and I'm not US, Not a lot of other routes for me but I wont bore everyone with all the details of whats going on behind the scenes, its a waiting game currently but worst comes to worst I just have to close comms and thats sort of it.