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 (40%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Sign in	4 hours ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	21 hours ago
Lyon	Errors	4 days ago
Paris	Sign in	6 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	6 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	8 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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  The Right Rationale (@Right_Rationale) reported 2 minutes ago

  @jvkenya Yes, you could read the article, where I go through the myth of that story: The “emerald mine heir” story is equally false. Musk left South Africa at 17 with roughly $2,000 Canadian dollars. He worked in a lumber mill. He lived in a youth hostel and later with relatives. After college he was more than $100,000 in debt. His first company, Zip2, began with a single computer he had built himself. Because he could not afford a second machine, he coded at night so the same computer could run the company’s server during the day. He wrote the initial platform himself. His father’s brief involvement with emeralds in the early 1980s produced no lasting wealth; by 2000 Errol Musk was bankrupt and later became financially dependent on his son. The capital that later funded Tesla and SpaceX came from the sale of Zip2 and then PayPal - companies Musk built from near-zero.

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  "مَـــدمُوزِيلْ👒 (@Mademoisele89) reported 9 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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  Ahmed Olabintan (@Ke_ji_wura) reported 9 minutes ago

  At the events we would take PayPal payments on my boss's phone. I had asked her several times over the years to add me as a PayPal contact because occasionally we would have connection issues due to the venue buildings or whatever and she wouldn't always be available to talk to them cuz she was coaching. Overall, she was a bit spacey and not very tech savvy like I've always been but I knew at some point this would be an issue. During covid, when we had a lot of events cancel and after doing my taxes, in my preparedness tendencies, I had the idea to put her SS# from my 1099 into my locked note app along with my family's info just in case we had another PayPal connection issue ever come up and they would ask for it for confirmation. Then I pretty much forgot about it.

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  Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported 9 minutes ago

  @PayPal Please do not use anything related to PayPal. It’s a terrible company with absolutely no customer support. If an issue arises, it will never be addressed.

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  Luna⁷ (@glamtopjm) reported 9 minutes ago

  WHY IS MY PAYPAL NOT WORKING BRO???? ITS JUST 3 EUROS I NEED TO SEND TO GET THAT DAMN APP 😭😭

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  Prashenjit Roy (@PrashenjitRoy1) reported 10 minutes ago

  @PayPal am unable to process with my account as it’s showing “ we’re permanently limiting your account “ . Please help me resolve this issue .

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  mcgibbykins (@mcgibbykins) reported 15 minutes ago

  @valkyrieinpink Just got it! I tried the other way first but it was declined as a high-risk transaction. 🙄 Went through PayPal no issue.

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  Karys (@IrishMyCase) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I have been locked out of my account for 2 years, I have tried emailing many times with no reply, I can't access the message centre to resolve the issue and I can't call due to anxiety issues, can you please message me to help unlock my account?

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  Eljuan Swanepoel (@Eljuan5056) reported 15 minutes ago

  @KatherineR5lth The cash app and PayPal not working in my country South Africa

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  Juan (@Juanitology) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal EMERGENCY: Case ID PP-R-MCW-635878992 is auto-closing in 30 minutes. The buyer committed return tracking fraud by uploading the original outbound tracking number instead of returning the item. Phone support is down. PLEASE PAUSE CASE CLOSURE FOR HUMAN REVIEW.

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  Crazy Sharp (@gunz1974) reported 16 minutes ago

  @realDougStewart @GabeHoff @LutherTheWriter I imagine right now he’s in the process of taking down the affiliate website… That’s OK I took screenshots of my earnings… Sales numbers and have all of the PayPal payouts for a record

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  Synergy 🌙🩵 (@Syniichu) reported 17 minutes ago

  @004Nubi I had to file a dispute on PayPal for a commission from a popular artist for not doing it, so she decided to try to revoke my rights to a concept art she made for free reworking my elements 🤨 Crazy bc she has this problem too

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  The Grand Teuton 🇺🇸 (@flulrich) reported 17 minutes ago

  @BowTiedKong I think banking regulations mandate the involvement of some physical clearing houses for an "online" transfer Why not just use ravens to transfer the funds? Another issue is PayPal holding people's funds hostage whenever they feel like it, apparently

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  Wichrzyciel ⚫ 🟡 (@wichrzyciel2) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Drinkooor @GrapheneOS Thanks, but this should come with a caveat that old reports likely aren't applicable anymore. It lists Revolut and PayPal as compatible, I tried the latter recently and it gives an error about phone being rooted.

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  Gioel (@wonder_land1A) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal @PayPalSupport Your digital systems are completely broken and supporting fraud. eBay officially ruled in my favor on July 29 for item 168207396673 (corporate fraud device) and voided the purchase. Yet PayPal refuses to redund …

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  Zapot (COMMS OPEN!!!)🫪 (@ZapotX) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AbsoluteMuffy @PayPal I wanted to ask you something, don't you issue invoices when you get paid?

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  IT Guy (@T3chFalcon) reported 32 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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  Denistratos (@Denistratos) reported 33 minutes ago

  @SumPoorSlob Let’s take this point by point. First, it is simply impossible that you sent a request to the Stratosphere bot on Telegram and received no response. Support works 7 days a week, from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM New York time, and responds within an hour. Where exactly did you write? The only link to the Stratosphere bot is always in my bio. Please be careful. Scammers took over the Stratosphere X page back in May and used it for fraudulent activities. I posted two warnings about it. As far as I know, they have been inactive for more than a month now – Canadian law enforcement is dealing with them. Second, we accept payments in USDC and USDT – three supported networks for each – and in BTC. This is not a matter of personal preference on my part – it is a matter of US and UAE financial regulations. Payment by card is something bloggers on X, YouTube, Substack, etc. can accept. We cannot. Third, there is no need to pay twice as much. I assume you probably went down some unnecessarily complicated route involving intrusive KYC through centralized exchanges or non-custodial wallets such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet. As far as I know, buying and sending crypto is quite straightforward through Cash App, Coinbase, PayPal / Venmo. Unfortunately, we cannot accept payment in any other way. Before deciding whether to try it or not, you can simply use the 24-hour free trial – it has been available since August 1.

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  andre ⭐️ loves ReVe (@coerdrew) reported 34 minutes ago

  @sydneyimpact i would volunteer myself but i sadly don’t have paypal running rn bc it has given me problems before 💔

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  that bookstore downtown (@maconsbookstore) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PayPal your site is down. 429 too many requests.

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  Luz (@leftyluz22) reported 36 minutes ago

  @liifesupports It took so long but when I got to checkout I did express checkout w PayPal it gave me an error message initially but I got the confirmation email and it showed up in my orders a few mins later.

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  Nick Berardi (@nberardi) reported 36 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am encountering an issue where your “Pay With PayPal” button is providing addresses for my billing information that aren’t in my account. Can you help?

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  Nick (@NiiiickMMA) reported 38 minutes ago

  @videogamedeals I've always preferred physical out of habit, but back in 2022 my Nintendo account got banned for a PayPal chargeback. Problem is I don't have a PayPal account. I got unbanned but the 2-3 days I was banned all my digital games were locked. Reinforced how important ownership is.

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  The Mighty (@JamTheMighty) reported 40 minutes ago

  No way this is real... This chick seriously turned down a man, regardless of how much money he has in that account, because he banks with Chime? This is like saying "If you don't put the money in my hands instead of using Cashapp/Zelle/PayPal, I'm done with you forever" Wow.

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  XRP Insider (@xrpinsider2017) reported 41 minutes ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  Alla Manshin| Tangem (@aliihsanozturkk) reported 50 minutes ago

  @bksolomon That sounds like a payment/order synchronization issue not evidence that the wallet itself is unsafe. If PayPal shows the payment completed but no Tangem order was created, shoot me a DM so I can trace the payment & arrange a refund Do you have the PayPal transaction ID?

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  Sora Jikihazure (@Sora_Jikihazure) reported 50 minutes ago

  @grandarchivetcg Unfortunately gonna miss this because coretcg doesint accept paypal even though the website does. It seems to send the request for payment before you can choose shipping. So once the shipping is added later it errors out. Please choose a reputable company for sales in the future

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  Froglet 🐸 (@froglet80) reported 52 minutes ago

  @AgnostikGnostik dont worry about it as long as its clear on your profile on both paypal and ko-fi that its donations - it wont be an issue. at first you may have to wait a bit for funds to clear unfortunately. and it also has a option to say its digital delivery.

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  swapysansys (@swapysansys) reported 57 minutes ago

  was going to open comms again but i lowk forgot my paypal login

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  0verKill404🇻🇪 ☕ (@0verKill404) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello! I just need to fix a single error regarding my birthdate, which I entered incorrectly when I created my account, and I haven't been able to resolve it for a long time. Please, I need help Fix it so that everything is up to date 🙏🙏