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 (46%)
• Errors (32%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montpellier	Website Down	2 days ago
Paris	Website Down	2 days ago
Paris	Website Down	2 days ago
Portsmouth	Website Down	2 days ago
Marseille	Errors	5 days ago
Montpellier	Website Down	5 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Erik Vallart (@erikvallart) reported 4 seconds ago

  It’s the same default setup most people use for email, banking, PayPal, cloud accounts, and recovery codes. Phone number equals “prove it’s you.” That’s the problem.

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  Simple American News 🗞️ (@TSimpleAmerican) reported 1 minute ago

  PayPal is shutting down its decade-old corporate venture arm, PayPal Ventures, as part of a broader restructuring push

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  Moniker (@_opcode) reported 1 minute ago

  @brxfastsolstice @thegenesisbl0ck Calm down, ethot. Do I need to paypal you some $ for you to act nice?

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  Artist in residence (@artyfarty75) reported 2 minutes ago

  @wariocolosseum Musk was born in 1971. He first appeared on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012 (around age 41) with ~$2 billion net worth.  He made significant money earlier: ~$180 million from the PayPal sale in 2002 (age ~31), but it took further successes with Tesla and SpaceX for him to solidly reach billionaire status. The “40 years” rounds up from birth but overlooks that meaningful wealth accumulation accelerated in his 30s–40s through entrepreneurship, not a slow linear grind.  Now he is making $1 BILLION every 15 minutes from SpaceX stock moves alone.”Exaggerated but directionally illustrative of recent volatility. Musk’s net worth hit ~$1.3 trillion as of June 17, 2026. This is paper wealth tied to stock price fluctuations, not realized cash income. It can (and does) go down. This post reflects the polarised online discourse from people spreading misinformation or partial truths, exaggerated by the misinformed.

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  🌰{hello.world}🌰 (@marshotel72) reported 4 minutes ago

  @SFCAPONTE1 @codeofvets @stripe She did but PayPal is always doing something to cause issues

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  J #spnatl (@scottishwhisky) reported 5 minutes ago

  Hi @PayPal. I just spoke to Yasmina and Miguel. Yasmina was lovely. Miguel is a problem. He informed me that ALL PayPal does is hide your payment info from the vendor. He also refused to transfer me. My problem still exists, and will happen again. Can someone help?

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  Judy 🇺🇸👮🏻🐗 (@AFJudy70) reported 5 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal @stripe PayPal didn’t have a problem getting their share of veterans donations. Shameful.

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  &ཞɛῳ 🇺🇸 (@andrewwrichard) reported 5 minutes ago

  @PayPal Do you have a problem with veterans?

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  Glenn 🇺🇲⚓️ (@gcanderson57) reported 8 minutes ago

  @OldGloryBank @johnrich Is there any sort of service you guys have or can create to help her. She's always used PayPal in the past, however I suspect like everything else now days her problem is being caused by an AI.

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  Aldrich Theophilus (@aldrighty) reported 11 minutes ago

  And with that being said. I only do paypal g&s other than that no. If you’re a real seller than you won’t have issues doing that

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  Game-****-strong (@Game_cockstrong) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Saladinbraham Ppl said the same thing with PayPal... Very similar story tbh. Not working out so well for them

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  NotNicole💗 (@NotNicole90) reported 16 minutes ago

  @raxkadess Girls, don't trust him. He asks to pay through PayPal Goods and Services just to file for a refund later. Plus, he reports accounts. Save yourselves the trouble and don't sell to him #buyingcontent

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  Praveen Kumar (@praveenkumaryo) reported 26 minutes ago

  Why My Digital History Is Triggering Active Hacking Attempts on Anyone I Interact With (The Cost of Pirated Software) Since 2011, I had a habit of digital hoarding - collecting and testing cracked games and expensive enterprise software (AutoCAD, Autodesk, Ansys, Adobe) just to see them run. In college and later in my professional life, I freely distributed these terabytes of pirated software to friends and colleagues, completely unaware of the massive digital footprint and security liabilities I was creating. By signing into these cracked builds with my personal email, my credentials were leaked to respective servers and weaponized through data breaches, allowing bad actors to tie my email, unique username handles, phone number, and social media profiles together. The real-world consequences started falling like dominoes. In 2017, a friend’s startup was targeted with Google account hacks and an Autodesk audit after their residential IP address registered as a business entity using cracked software from me. When I joined the rocket startup AgniKul Cosmos in 2019, I distributed these software packages again. The fallout was severe: the entire team began receiving targeted, unknown messages on LinkedIn and WhatsApp phishing calls; our Wi-Fi became unusable unless restarted; and our founder's email was compromised to spam the team, forcing me to wipe and reinstall every office machine. I later found out the startup faced massive licensing fines after audit visits. Even after moving to a spacecraft design startup, the exact same disruptive patterns followed. The targeting escalated heavily during the 2020 lockdown. After noticing a suspicious Microsoft account login alert that perfectly correlated with an Argentinian "ethical hacker" visiting my Premium LinkedIn profile, I confronted him directly via InMail. That very night, a coordinated wave of login alerts hit my Reddit, PayPal, and other social media services. Because I use a consistent username across platforms like Twitter/X and LinkedIn, these actors have mapped my entire network. They’ve tracked my investor interactions, used malicious links in bio pages to harvest my home IP addresses (forcing me to rely on a VPN to restore normal speeds), and targeted my family members. Because of this relentless surveillance, I keep my current venture strictly in stealth mode and refuse to update my employer details on LinkedIn to shield my current team. This is a public apology and a massive heads-up. Recently, this targeting has shifted outward to anyone I publicly engage with. Whomever I interact with, reply to, or tag on Twitter/X is immediately seeing a surge in suspicious login alerts and hacking attempts on their own accounts. If you are interacting with me publicly, please enable robust 2FA, monitor your active login sessions, avoid clicking any random links, and stay highly vigilant. My past digital hoarding has turned into an active security vector, and I am sharing this so you can protect your data before they target you next.

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  Kayrab Thee Rabizm (@DreadLock_Gamer) reported 28 minutes ago

  @FedericoBa71889 @MarcoFoster_ @KyleKulinski So he didn't create it, he funded it with generational wealth earned from his parents who are in mining. But even then: Outside of America PayPal was never that popular. Tesla makes terrible vehicles and electric vehicles are worse for the environment currently.

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  Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) reported 32 minutes ago

  Next time you think of giving up, remember this picture. The picture is Elon Musk staring at the wreckage of another exploded Falcon 1 rocket, the third to fail on launch. In 2008, Musk was borrowing money from friends to pay his rent, going through a divorce, SpaceX was running out of cash, and to add to the misery, Tesla was at risk of missing payroll and going bankrupt. Down to his last $40 million of the $180 million he reportedly made from selling PayPal, Musk decided on one last roll of the dice and poured his remaining capital into a fourth launch on September 28, 2008. This time it worked. The rocket successfully reached orbit. Weeks later, SpaceX was awarded a $1.6 billion contract from NASA. A few months later, Tesla secured crucial investment to commence production of the original Tesla Roadster. "I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10% likely to succeed," Musk later said. Musk could have taken a salaried job and never pursued entrepreneurship. He could have pocketed his PayPal millions and sat on a beach for the rest of his life. Instead, he risked it all and it paid off in a spectacular way, not just for him. His groundbreaking companies have given consumers new and better products and created 1000s of well-paid jobs. SpaceX alone has made more than 4,000 former and current employees Dollar millionaires. It also made Musk the world’s first trillionaire. His detractors tell you his wealth is undeserved. The truth is that when exceptional individuals like Musk run risks that may seem unacceptable to most of us, society progresses and we all gain. Instead of chastising success, we should take inspiration from people like Elon Musk. He didn’t get rich by accident or by luck. He got rich through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, and by taking risks.

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  David Dawson (@TinyTalesX) reported 37 minutes ago

  @What_is_Praise @catturd2 It’s a terrible process. After I complained enough I got a letter from PayPal basically telling me to sue the buyer if I felt cheated.

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  Matthew Rife (@RifeTechnology) reported 42 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith @PayPal What happened? I saw that they locked you down this morning, but then saw that you got access back. They got you again after that?

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  Sam Boboev (@samboboev) reported 43 minutes ago

  BREAKING: @PayPal winds down venture arm as fintech giant restructures under new CEO PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter. The fund’s headcount has shrunk from more than 10 in late 2025 to now only two, according to an archived version of the website for PayPal Ventures. Meanwhile, the page that listed the venture unit’s employees is no longer visible. PayPal is also exploring the sale of some of its positions on the secondary market and has hired the investment bank Jefferies to help with potential transactions, said one source familiar with the matter, who declined to be named while talking about private business dealings. PayPal established its venture arm in 2016, one year after eBay spun off the fintech into an independent company. Since then, PayPal Ventures, which invests off the fintech’s balance sheet, has backed more than 80 companies across three funds that total more than $850 million. Some of its more prominent bets include the fintech Plaid, the crypto custodian Anchorage Digital, and its exits include Bill com’s acquisition of the startup Divvy in 2021. The performance of the venture fund’s portfolio contributed 10 cents to PayPal’s $1.53 earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2025, as opposed to subtracting four cents in 2024, according to a February earnings release. News by Fortune

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  @tonyflosan (@tony_flosan) reported 48 minutes ago

  Not surprised PayPal Ventures is shutting down. I am, however, surprised it took this long.

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  Axolotl Capsule🦎 🔞 (@Axolotl_Caps) reported 49 minutes ago

  Also i know ppl would usually open a donations thingy or something like that on Kofi, but i feel id not do that specially since i have some problems with paypal. So i really don't wanna do that, specially cuz i don't feel like i deserve them, so I'll think of something(7/?)

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  Ris (@risXKS45) reported 50 minutes ago

  @PayPal Update: Product issue with a platform and bad HR with someone using the payment gateway, been working great since. 8/10 - not 10 because, take care of your own team being consistently professional across all régions if it's tech support messieurs.

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  Rogue Hillbilly (@From_The_Hills_) reported 51 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal PayPal is straight trash. I had an account for years with no issues, then about 5 years ago they suspended my account and said they needed access to my email and social media accounts to continue. I told em to eat a bag of *****.

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  Priyal Raj (@Capta1nCodes) reported 53 minutes ago

  Hey @Meta @WhatsApp @whatsappforbiz I am begging you to fix the issue of payment of WABA multiple times. I have tried more than 10 cards, payment still failed, no UPI, no Paypal, no support.

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  Great Abramus (@Great_Abramus) reported 53 minutes ago

  @WillBiddy_ Since Q4 of Paypal i got out - too slow development of their accelerators. Dont you find it risky?

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  Esco (@EscoJ27) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Saladinbraham Reminds me of PayPal. Growing business. Low pe/ forward pe. They are buying back shares. Cheapest multiple in years. Market just doesn’t care. Down/ sideways for years. Adobe can do the same.

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  angeliclucero (@angeliclucero) reported 55 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith @PayPal They have terrible customer service 😕

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  Pomba (@LuckyPata) reported 56 minutes ago

  hey dudes, sorry about the lack of updates! recently got my business paypal account restricted and Im trying to sort this out. Does anyone have had a problem with it before? I really need some input here :(

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  Old before my time (@wokeupold2day) reported 57 minutes ago

  @marknoble @grok Yeah I had paypal 15 years ago. Tell me again the problem that crypto solves?

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  JoyceMarg (@yougointogitmo) reported 57 minutes ago

  @dedes016 @ZakariaMDv3 @KKaaRRii2 They used to send me a PayPal invoice but they won’t do anymore. Last time I had to join PayPal’s XOOM app and it lets you wire funds directly to their bank in India $$. It sounds complicated but not really. The sellers are super polite and can text in English no problem.

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  PeterPayFi (@PeterPayFi) reported 57 minutes ago

  She wasn't alone. Across Southeast Asia we kept meeting the same person — different country, different job, same problem. A nurse in Manila sending money home to her family. A developer in Ho Chi Minh City waiting on a US client payment. A freelancer in Bangkok juggling Wise, PayPal, and a local bank just to get paid. All of them losing time. All of them losing money. Every single month.