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 (39%)
• Errors (39%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	8 hours ago
Paris	Sign in	1 day ago
Benfeld	Sign in	4 days ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	5 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	6 days ago
Lodève	Errors	6 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  SJ (@1000spices) reported 6 minutes ago

  @woolworths Is there an issue with paying through the app right now? Am trying to place an order and 4 different types of payments have been declined. Apple Pay, entering details and also PayPal.

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  baihao (@cbaihao) reported 10 minutes ago

  Payment is a slow moving space. amex is a 176 yo company. visa 68 yo. paypal 27. stripe 16. It takes decade for a tech breakthrough to come around and reopen up design space for payment. think internet, mobile, and blockchain. we’re likely looking at the next

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  Colton Graves (@Texshi_Yoshi) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Miizuuiart Is paypal okay? I'd be down!

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  WanderingWlf (@WanderingWlf) reported 17 minutes ago

  Every time I try to be productive something just full stops me. Trying to finish setting up a business paypal account to link to ko-fi but the setup process is just not working. Ugh. Feel like I wasted a whole day. I have to wait tomorrow to talk to a human...

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  satoshi2024 (@vote4satoshi) reported 18 minutes ago

  @brian_armstrong The kyc killed most of the potential clients. Had no problem with stripe or PayPal, CB business is a pain in the ***. Gave up on multiple tries

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  ContractorKeith (@contractorkeith) reported 22 minutes ago

  • accept online $ through stripe/paypal/square • automatic bank feeds via SimpleFIN • mac and windows verified installers • linux or docker install also available • completely local you own the data • server edition for multi user • bring your own ai

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  Enzeyi Siema (@EnzeyiSiema) reported 25 minutes ago

  @EnriqueJLores @PayPal Congratulations, I however have an issue with how your team handles account limitation issues. My business account got limited, I asked for 2 reviews, they don't respond clearly via email. First review, email says partial restoration, and nothing changes at all. I need an ear.

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  Peter Hamilton 🐺 🌏 (@PeterHamilton_1) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Horsetorque Mate just tried to buy your Rosehill form just to see what its like and paypal wouldn't process it. Maybe a glitch somewhere. I buy a lot through PayPal normally so it should work.

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  Mr Pardo🐐 (@Pardoisback) reported 29 minutes ago

  @dartboikvnzy @PayPal fix up

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  Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported 34 minutes ago

  @The_SecretShow One problem Bryan made like $800m selling Braintree and Venmo to paypal... What have you done, anon?

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  Sanjay (@sanjayi0) reported 35 minutes ago

  If you've missed $SERV earlier, It's time to start accumulating slowly from here. The market sentiment is not good right now, It may also go down further but this price seems reasonable Order 1: CMP Order 2: 0.195$ Order 3: 0.015$ The team is building silently in bear market. - Joining Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) alongside global giants like Mastercard, PayPal, and HSBC - Pushing hard into regulated finance + agentic payments with v3 in development + SOC2/ISO certifications underway - Look where @openservai logo sitting in middle of tech giants.

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 36 minutes ago

  @KatrinaHelle Been in PayPal since 2023. Fortunate enough to have been able to average down. $80 is a good price, $40 off the low. Surely PayPal will reach $100 again on its own but CEO said turnaround would not begin till 2028. Rather go ahead and cash out at $80 then redeploy.

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 37 minutes ago

  @InfarisVelsina @PayPal 72 hours isnt the problem. a whole drive sitting on one account nobody in it controls is. thats the part i work on at vaultleap

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  Texas lady (@latebird1) reported 39 minutes ago

  What’s up with PayPal? It’s not working…

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  Karma’s Suppository (@realPhantomFuck) reported 40 minutes ago

  @benwegmann I’ve sold nine phones on Swappa and probably a dozen things on OfferUp and Craigslist over the years, I’ve never once had a problem. I’ve tried selling things on eBay TWICE and both times the seller attempted to scam me. eBay and PayPal are a cesspit

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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 41 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Would instantly lock you out of buying anything cause that's how PayPal works, first use would lock you out and then close your account out even if it's LEGIT cause PayPal uses AI for everything and there's number 1 major issue there, PayPay was good before AI.

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  Krishnan Srinivasan (@Sastha93883062) reported 42 minutes ago

  @TheOfficialSBI Xoom, a PayPal Service xxxxx. 00 INR Transaction details Transaction number: XT92ZQY5 For: Krishnan Srinivasan Sender: xyz Date sent: Aug 12, 2026, 6:44 AM PDT Recipient receives: xxxxx.00 INR Money sent to: State Bank of India x-9101 @SHMBA09 Issue not resolved Please act/respond. Urgent.

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  amir“ (@Amir_rz_k) reported 43 minutes ago

  spent some time reading through AllScale Store's official playbooks, and one section stood out. the one written for crypto signals group admins, and I think a lot of people running these groups will relate. the common problem: card processors like PayPal or Stripe freeze accounts the moment they flag your content as investment advice often without warning. months of recurring income can disappear overnight. with @allscaleio payment happens in $USDT meaning it settles final and irreversible so there's no processor in the middle that can decide to freeze anything. the buyer pays, the bot automatically sends the private group invite, done. small detail, but for anyone who's actually had this happen, it's the difference between a side tool and a real solution. #AllScale

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  Rituraj (@RituWithAI) reported 43 minutes ago

  🚨 Someone built a tool that checks if your email is registered on 120+ sites — without the sites ever knowing someone checked. No notifications sent. No login attempts logged. No alerts triggered. Silent. Invisible. Complete. It's called Holehe. 16,800 GitHub stars. And the technique behind it is what makes it different from every other email OSINT tool. Here's how most email checkers work — and why they fail. Standard approach: try to log in with the email and a fake password. If the error says "wrong password" — the account exists. If it says "account not found" — it doesn't. Problem: every login attempt gets logged. Every failed attempt triggers security alerts on accounts with 2FA. Some platforms lock accounts after repeated failed attempts. The target knows someone was checking. Holehe never attempts a login. Instead it uses the "forgot password" flow — the password reset mechanism that every platform exposes publicly. When you enter an email on a forgot password page, the platform has to check whether that email exists in its database. It tells you: "we sent a reset link" or "no account found." Holehe reads that response. Gets the answer. Never touches the login flow. Never triggers a security alert. Never logs an access attempt against the account. The platform confirms whether the email exists. The account owner never finds out anyone asked. Here's what 120+ platforms looks like in practice. Social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit. Professional: LinkedIn, GitHub, Freelancer, Fiverr. Dating: Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Badoo, Happn. Entertainment: Spotify, Netflix, Twitch, Steam, Epic Games, Deezer. Shopping: Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Zalando, AliExpress. Services: Airbnb, Uber, PayPal, Dropbox, Adobe. And 90+ more. Every registration checked silently. Here's the use case that makes people share this. Run your own email address. See every platform that comes back positive. Then run an email address you gave to a company that claimed they'd never share it. See if it's registered on data broker sites and marketing platforms you never signed up for. See where your email has been sold or leaked to. Here's what investigators actually use it for. Journalists verifying whether a source's claimed identity matches their digital footprint. Security researchers auditing their own exposure before a public disclosure. HR teams verifying whether candidate profiles match claimed backgrounds. And the obvious: anyone who needs to know whether a specific email address belongs to a real active person — without alerting that person. Here's the wildest part. It runs async — all 120+ platforms checked simultaneously. Results in seconds. And it exports clean JSON or CSV for integration into larger OSINT pipelines. Pair it with Blackbird (which takes the confirmed email and finds linked profiles), Sherlock (which takes usernames found in those profiles and searches 400+ platforms), and Maigret (which builds the full dossier) — and you have a complete four-tool OSINT pipeline from a single email address. One command to instal. Run it on your own email first. 16.8K GitHub stars. 1.7K forks. MIT License. 100% Open Source. GitHub link in the comments 👇

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  DividendBoomer (@BoomerDivvies) reported 44 minutes ago

  @darrelltalksfi I sold PayPal after it recovered from a long down cycle. I wish I only picked winners lol.

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  James T. Gordon (@jamestgordon) reported 45 minutes ago

  Facebook market place reselling flip this week: $1500 - buy price $2700 - sell price $1200 - net profit Dell Poweredge Server R730xd w/ 768GB RAM (24x32GB) When I saw this post to fb I had to get the exact RAM config right away. Seller was fast and once I had the exact specs I text a pic to my memory buyer. He came back with a $100 per module. Right away I knew I could spend $1500 and get $2400 on the RAM. I offer $1200 on the server. Saw that the seller had seen the message but no response. Waited two hours but didn't want to loose the sale. Offered asking price and arranged to meet that evening. Ate a little on paypal fees for the $2400 but the buyer covers the minimal shipping charge. Will sell the server on fb marketplace for around $300. Quick flip. Electronics aren't the easiest resell but if you know what you're looking at then there can be a lot of upside. Definitely not a resale asset class to sleep on.

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  benjawoman (@benjawoman10) reported 52 minutes ago

  shoutout to @PayPal for refusing to close my account then shutting down support for the night

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  vince is in Argentina (@LESBIANSBL) reported 53 minutes ago

  At what point can we call someone stupid bc I just saw a mother of two get scammed bc she thought the federal government was calling her over missing jury duty and sent like 11k USD to a personal PayPal account all bc “she’s terrified of getting in trouble”

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  Kayuki Arcticus🍦🐉【IRIAM US】🔜OffKai 2026 (@kayukiarcticus) reported 59 minutes ago

  @DokiDreamers So now my PayPal is pending authorization on every time I tried to use it while it was broken

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 59 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  A. Ego (@CobAltEgo) reported 59 minutes ago

  @PhilipJohnston @XMoney This is exactly how he spiked Paypal. When it's below a certain size, the cost of the interest is lower than customer acquisition (e.g. marketing) and then you dial down that spend as network effects take over and the word is out.

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  Enzeyi Siema (@EnzeyiSiema) reported 60 minutes ago

  Hi, How is the issue with @PayPal going on? Did they fix it?

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  jj (@Divopanel) reported 1 hour ago

  @NamecheapCEO I lost $50.88; I’m going to open a PayPal dispute if they don't resolve the issue. I contacted support, but they didn't help—even though they charged $50.88 to my PayPal! All my sites are down! (Over 22 sites with Namecheap).

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  PredCat 🐱 (@pred_cat) reported 1 hour ago

  @VannDough @agentlayer_ai the paypal analogy undersells it, paypal still needed a human to click confirm. agents need wallets with spend limits and revocable keys baked in, not just rails. x402 solves the sub cent problem card networks never could, a 30 cent min fee kills any agent making 1000 api calls a day.

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  James T. Gordon (@jamestgordon) reported 1 hour ago

  Facebook market place reselling flip this week: $1500 - buy price $2700 - sell price $1200 - net profit Dell Poweredge Server R730xd w/ 768GB RAM (24x32GB) When I saw this post to fb I had to get the exact RAM config right away. Seller was fast and once I had the exact specs I shot a pic to my memory buyer. He came back with a $100 per module. Right away I knew I could spend $1500 and get $2400 on the RAM. I offer $1200 on the server. Saw that the seller had seen the message but no response. Waited two hours but didn't want to loose the sale. Offered asking price and arranged to meet that evening. Ate a little on paypal fees for the $2400 but the buyer covers the minimal shipping charge. Will sell the server on fb marketplace for around $300. Quick flip. Electronics aren't the easiest resell but if you know what you're looking at then there can be a lot of upside. Definitely not a resale asset class to sleep on.