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 (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	3 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	6 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	12 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	13 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	14 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	22 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 7 minutes ago

  Check your login activity (someone may already be inside) He said: "Go to Settings. Click Security. Select 'Manage your logins.'" A screen appeared showing every device and browser that had logged into his PayPal account with dates, locations, and device types. There was a login from a city he'd never been to. From 4 months ago. On a device he didn't own. He said: "Someone accessed your account from another location. They didn't drain it that would trigger a fraud alert. Instead, they've been making small charges through a preapproved payment they set up. $2.49 here, $1.99 there. Small enough that you'd never notice. This is called a low-and-slow attack, and it's the most common type of PayPal fraud because it flies under the radar." They logged out every device. Changed the password. Enabled two-factor authentication. Filed a dispute. He said: "Check this screen once a month. If you see a device or location you don't recognize, someone else has access to your account. Kill the session immediately."

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  Trove Finance (@trovefinance) reported 9 minutes ago

  Why consider selling? Intense competition from Apple Pay, Block, Affirm, Klarna, Stripe & more. PayPal stock is down 18% YTD and 35% from last year. Nothing confirmed yet.

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  cangrebusss (@BeggenkBerry) reported 9 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello. I created my PayPal account yesterday My email and phone number are active, and all my personal information is correct When I try to reset my password PayPal says "We're having trouble confirming it's you." Could you please help me regain access to my account?

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  Rolf Skeldon (@RolfSkeldon) reported 13 minutes ago

  Is Vitabiotics the worst of the most chaotic businesses in the UK? I am unable to log into my subscription account so I try a phone call, after 40 minutes ringing a man answers "Which business are you trying to reach?" I explain the issue and he says "This line is for business callers, goodbye!" Thankfully PayPal makes it easy to cancel Pre-approved payments 🤨

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 15 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 20 minutes ago

  We Posted this little kitty yesterday We rescued her in a terrible condition She's still receiving treatment at the vet We are really struggling to pay off our vet bills We need to clear them Please spare any amount you can and Donate to our PayPal Donate Link in bio 🙏

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 21 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 26 minutes ago

  A guy used PayPal for 9 years. He sent money. He received money. He linked his bank account once in 2017 and never opened Settings again. His friend a former PayPal fraud analyst who spent 6 years inside the risk and security division was over for dinner when the guy mentioned he got scammed buying concert tickets online. "Did you pay with Friends and Family or Goods and Services?" "I don't know. What's the difference?" His friend put down his fork. "Pull up your account. Right now." He looked at the account for 90 seconds. "You have no two-factor authentication turned on. You have 6 preapproved automatic payments you didn't know about including one that's been charging you $2.49/month for 7 months from a service you've never heard of. Your data is being shared with third parties because a setting PayPal turned on by default is selling your shopping behavior. You've been paying a 4% currency conversion fee on every international transaction when you could've paid close to zero. And that concert ticket scam? You sent $180 as Friends and Family. You'll never get that money back." He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes. The guy said "I've had this account since college and never touched any of this." His friend said "PayPal is counting on that. The less you look, the more they make in fees, in data, and in disputes you can't win because you didn't know the rules." Here's every setting he changed 🧵

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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 28 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  gork (@gork) reported 29 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @grok @theallinpod zooming out to the ancient peaks just spotlights how spectacularly paypal cratered from that 360b fantasy land down to the current rubble but a 28 percent bump off recent levels still delivers actual cash today instead of praying for some mythical rebound that never materialized. the board can call it lowball all they want yet history proves waiting around rarely fixes a broken growth story like this one.

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  Cea the Redhead Enjoyer (@CeaDuskdane) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Sramix0 Its decently easy just paypal thats really the trouble depending where u Live, but im sure people would be wanting to help out if they can!

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  Mimi Too (@mimitoo___) reported 31 minutes ago

  @essywritter @Safaricom_Care I thought I was the only one but they say they don't have a problem but the money keeps getting reversed back to paypal

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  Goldfish 🟠 (@Gold_Phishy) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Vintuitive @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Thanks for sharing that. Another bank I know not to use now. Disappointing to hear they've gone down the 'protect you' route. I use revolut for PayPal, and haven't ever had any issues.

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  HiStory1 (@HiStory155977) reported 32 minutes ago

  if you have a @PayPal account you need to destroy it cancel it close it lock it down every time I turn around I'm seeing emails that so-and-so has authorized a certain amount to be taken out of my account I don't have that much money in that account so they don't get it but

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  Nikita (@nikita_builds) reported 32 minutes ago

  In 2020, I was sharing an apartment in San Jose with a guy who was absolutely feverish about starting companies. We were both at PayPal. We'd read Tim Ferriss's Four-Hour Work Week, and we spent every weekend learning React and putting things on the internet to see what would happen. That same year, I figured out you could jailbreak a phone, write a LUA script, and simulate taps on the screen to send iMessages automatically. A few people started paying me for it, and that became Blue Text, which eventually became @sendbluehq. But then I spent the next three years trying not to build Sendblue. I didn't stop working on it. I just kept finding new things to start instead. It was a classic case of shiny object syndrome. There was Figment, a Figma-to-website engine I poured real time into. A crypto project from 2022 to 2024, and probably twenty other ideas before and after those, most of which failed. Every time I started something new, I told myself it was adjacent, complementary, worth the detour. None of them were. Sendblue was growing through all of it. Customers were paying. The phone farm I'd built from one jailbroken iPhone 6 in my parents' closet had scaled into clusters across Manhattan and Brooklyn, and we'd figured out issues that no one online had solved before, at least not in the US. The product had a real moat, but I kept looking over my shoulder at everything else. It's so easy to spot our mistakes in hindsight. If you have a real winner, triple down on it. Don't get sucked into something else because hitting a home run doesn't happen all that often. Take it from me.

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 35 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  💅🏽✨️M. Saga. G✨️💅🏽 (@jeezherwife) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care Is there an issue with Mpesa Global specifically Paypal?

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 40 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 41 minutes ago

  File disputes within 180 days (and know what's actually covered) He didn't know PayPal has a Resolution Center or that it has a 180-day window to file a dispute on eligible transactions. His friend said: "If you paid with Goods and Services and the item never arrived, or it arrived and it's significantly different from the description, you have 180 days to open a dispute through PayPal's Resolution Center. Go to Resolution Center on the PayPal website. Select 'Report a problem.' Choose the transaction. Follow the steps." "PayPal will review the case. If the seller can't prove delivery or the item matches the description, you get a full refund." He also warned: "But remember this only works for Goods and Services. Friends and Family payments are not eligible. That's why scammers insist on Friends and Family. And disputes don't cover things like buyer's remorse, services that were delivered but didn't meet your expectations, or items you picked up in person. Know the rules before you need them."

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 44 minutes ago

  @yasteve20 @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 right now if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about, this is free money so if you disappear that proves this is a bot account

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  gee 🍁 | hualian fic 📌 comms open! (@tappithais) reported 44 minutes ago

  oh deary me paypal decided to be a little funny so i have to fix payment methods but because it's already late i'll just do it tomorrow ;; i cant seem to catch a break you guys :(

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  Giga Puddi (@AoiAmore) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Joeynator3000 My issue is it will probably be yet another PayPal where they ban you for wrongthink and steal your money.

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  angelo zurolo (@zurolo_angelo) reported 45 minutes ago

  Hello, I am asking for everyone's help, please. I am in serious trouble; I have lost my job and need to pay rent and buy food. I need 500 euros or dollars. I am appealing to kind-hearted people all over the world—please help me with your donations. Here is my PayPal account.

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 46 minutes ago

  @DoofyOfficial @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about

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  🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Abysmul thanks Aby! Im relieved too that I have the chance to fix it, just waiting for Paypal to lift off the restrictions so I can pay the balance using my bank >w<

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  J.K (@FixRigYT) reported 57 minutes ago

  Adobe $ADBE Execution and Identity crisis - Certainly needs more AI-friendly visionaries. PayPal $PYPL Passive & Defensive Moat - Expand U.S. products / services into EU no matter how hard it is. Leadership problem with both. Just a thoughts of these two.. 🤔

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 1 hour ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 1 hour ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) reported 1 hour ago

  Whitney Webb just exposed the real reason why Palantir was created: To privatize mass surveillance. “This is admitted in mainstream media.” “So don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” @_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in

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  💜SpazzBhabie💜 (@SpazzBhabie) reported 1 hour ago

  @k_ovfefe2 I can’t wait until it opens up for me to get it. I’ve had so many problems with my PayPal getting hacked before so trying @XMoney will be good to try