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
Kassel	Sign in	2 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	2 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	3 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	3 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	5 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dragonglenny (@GlennyDrag44377) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz Contact Paypal customer service and explain the issue and take it from there.

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  mel (@popodysseytour) reported 8 minutes ago

  @discohouseharry right like ik your paypal isn’t having problems LOL

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  armpitsniffer69 (7 days🎉) (@ThatStonerDino) reported 10 minutes ago

  @pzychopup yes immediately transfer the money if you can, im not saying its gonna happen but i have seena lot of people get their accounts locked because people can like issue a refund and say it was a scam or something like that under the business option, paypal

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  Mistress Stitches 𓄧 (@MissStittches) reported 11 minutes ago

  I knew I was gunna be a problem as soon as those Cashapp & PayPal notifications made my ***** throb

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  Infaris || Cyber Demon VTuber (@InfarisVelsina) reported 13 minutes ago

  @MaximiliankotWA Yeah my biggest issue is finances and/or time there. I def need to bring on an editor and get some stuff built up on that end but as it stands with the PayPal stuff halting my freelance work I’ll need to find new income for myself to help cover a large cost of living increase

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Marcothecoolest @XitterUser_69 tbf there is a report system iirc, however ao3 will not take works down unless they are incorrectly tagged OR they have links to websites like paypal... ao3 is like famous for letting basically anything slide idk why they think the fics are getting taken down by mods

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  Chantelle (@_CLE7) reported 15 minutes ago

  @HelpAtGeorge Why does it not let me check out online? Tried multiple cards so I know its not the card. Tried paying by card, PayPal and Google pay and all say there's an issue. Same yesterday

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  ⊹ ࣪ ˖✨Sparkle | Girl Failure Puppy 🐾⊹ ࣪ ˖ (@SparklezPawz) reported 19 minutes ago

  I may never be working with editors after my terrible and unprofessional experience with my very first one as an indie vtuber, this is the **** that makes me want to quit sometimes I never had an editor come to my friends chat after I gifted them 5 subs and they say “can pay her pookie subs but can’t pay her editor properly” After I expressed I cannot afford to pay them the wage they want, they asked me how much I can afford, I provided my budget and they immediately took the deal instead of waiting for me to get the right money I took the deal because they insisted it’s okay that time, a month later they’re asking me to pay them more because they regret taking my low payment , I expressed how unprofessional and stressful this experience has been and they tell me “you could’ve just said no” It’s a little hard not to say just “no” when the prior statements after asking for more money is “I worked over 25 hours on this and I can’t justify how much you paid me” I paid them more today and told them I don’t want to work with them anymore after this current video, and then I see this in my PayPal Imagine trying to run a business and you treat your clients like this.

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  DJ (@RedrumCashew2) reported 20 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Has anyone had issues paying with PayPal?

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  KJ (@KJ1981ya) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz You changed it? I had that issue with my old PayPal, couldn't figure it out, ended up having to make a new one with diff email address....

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  Alam Aguilera Couto (@AlamCouto) reported 25 minutes ago

  @abdwaleed92 I don't know if you saw my message. I tried to donate to your GoFundMe. But I couldn't. I tried to donate to your brothers Paypal. But I couldn't. I asked around and someone said there had been recurring problems with donating to GoFundMe Chuffed has always worked with me

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  DSIV (@dsivmusic) reported 27 minutes ago

  ③ What is easy to overlook The biggest upgrade you can make is give Codex Security an actual security policy instead of the vague “find the bugs.” Drop a SECURITY.md that spells out: • system boundary • threat model • attacker-controlled inputs • trust boundaries • security invariants • what counts as a reportable finding • accepted risks • compensating controls Way more powerful than “scan everything.” For a music producer building anything that handles money, downloads, or user accounts, tell it explicitly to protect: • auth and authorization boundaries • admin / producer dashboards • customer session and payment data • API keys and environment secrets • webhooks from Stripe / PayPal / BeatStars • file uploads and external sample URLs • payment trust boundaries • redirects • XSS / HTML injection on product pages • CSRF • SSRF • injection points • rate limiting / abuse controls • dependency and supply-chain risk • server-side vs client-side secrets • private catalog and unreleased stems • deployment config That threat model stays alive and gets sharper every time you refine it. One more thing people miss: scanning is not the same as architecture. If Codex builds a perfectly coded but insecure authorization model for your download system, the scanner is already fighting uphill. The invariants have to exist before the code. Examples that actually matter: INVARIANT A browser must never receive a privileged Stripe or admin credential. INVARIANT Every privileged mutation (price change, download unlock, refund) must authorize server-side. INVARIANT User-controlled URLs may never hit an unrestricted internal fetcher. INVARIANT Secrets only come from approved secret stores or environment variables. INVARIANT No generated page may render unsanitized user-controlled HTML. INVARIANT Production deploys require security tests to pass. Now both Codex and Codex Security have something concrete to enforce

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  emswhims #SHAKYKNEES26 |-/ (@emswhims1) reported 29 minutes ago

  @quinniferhugh @scaledxclancy @mvlberrystreet_ Yeah that is where I screwed up ... didn't question about PayPal and definitely should have. I had seen a couple people comment that they had purchased tickets from them previously with no problem. I put too much trust in that ... or maybe scammer just realized I was easy prey 😒

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  Belvis Otieno Zion (@BelvisZion) reported 29 minutes ago

  @SafaricomPLC Why all this Safaricom. All pending PayPal withdrawal payments are never solved. You issue ticket number for cases and tend to not help . When I call customer care, all the agents claim they don't understand the problem but I wait. Is it deliberate that I won't get any help?

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  Miles | Creative Developer (@haven53521) reported 30 minutes ago

  Been tryna buy Domain on @GoDaddy with Opay virtual card and it's not saving at all And we all know the problem and issue with @PayPal and Nigerians

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 34 minutes ago

  Honestly, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. There are others who have gone through something similar or even the exact same situation with him, and apparently, they end up settling things amicably. I hope this can be resolved, as the whole thing seems completely crazy to me. I can understand a problem or a disagreement and working toward a solution, but filing PayPal claims over things that don't even fail a similarity check (like a background) is just absurd; he simply filed a claim for the *entire* job

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 38 minutes ago

  Elon Musk was fired from his own company while flying to his honeymoon. September 2000. He boarded a plane with his new wife, finally taking a break. While he was in the air, unreachable, the PayPal board held an emergency vote and removed him as CEO. Executives he had hired organized the coup, timed precisely for the hours he couldn't defend himself. He landed to discover he no longer ran his own company. He flew back immediately and tried to fight it. The board held firm. The coup stood. Here's where the story becomes about him and not them. He didn't sue. He didn't burn it down. He didn't spend years in litigation like most founders would. He stayed on the board, kept his shares, and kept advising the men who knifed him. When asked why, he said the mission mattered more than his ego, and his shares mattered more than revenge. Two years later PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Because he'd stayed instead of raging, his stake had grown into $180 million. The betrayal became the exact capital that funded SpaceX and Tesla. The men who fired him made him the richest founder in the building. Every rocket that launches today was paid for by a coup that was supposed to end him. Revenge is expensive. Equity is patient. He chose the one that compounds, and the people who wronged him ended up financing his empire.

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  palazzetto delle aste (@PalazzettoA) reported 39 minutes ago

  @mayemusk @boringcompany Vision: a PayPal and X merger as a global hub The starting point is the current situation with Stripe trying to acquire PayPal, a deal that creates strong concentration in the payments industry regardless of whether Musk is involved. The alternative vision is that Musk himself, one of PayPal’s original co-founders, should instead pursue a merger between PayPal and X, avoiding the need to route his own products through Stripe, which today feels like a contradiction. The structural advantage is that Revolut already proves you can offer instant credit, like loans issued in minutes, without being a traditional bank, operating instead under electronic money licenses. This allows you to bypass part of the classic regulatory rigidity, while still remaining subject to antitrust and compliance oversight. Direct experience with both payment systems matters here: PayPal settles funds immediately, while Stripe holds them for weeks despite lower fees, a real problem for anyone who needs to move cash quickly and pay suppliers on time. The core of the vision is building a fully vertical ecosystem: X becomes the platform, PayPal the payment and financing engine, and Musk’s products, Tesla, Starlink, the future Optimus robots, robotaxis, get sold directly with one click, financed through monthly installments charged to the PayPal card, without ever leaving the platform. In this scenario, X should not compete with TikTok on mass, low-price sales, but position itself for a high-spending audience, selling high-value goods like watches, used cars with built-in financing, premium products that justify real advertising investment, leaving low-margin mass sales to other platforms. The revenue model becomes multi-layered: income from advertising that sellers must buy to gain visibility on the platform, income from interest and fees on financing extended through the card, and lower credit risk because the system already knows users’ spending behavior thanks to artificial intelligence.

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  Sam AI (@AIandTechh87) reported 39 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Fahad (@wtfaddyyy) reported 40 minutes ago

  More than half of Pakistan’s financial issues would be solved if PayPal came to Pakistan.

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  RipStudios (@RiptideRipp) reported 40 minutes ago

  I paid for everything even the thumbnails that didn’t pass moderation because he said he would fix them which he ended up saying later that it’s not his problem after we agreed he would do it. After the PayPal cases are concluded if I end up winning them, I’m letting him keep the thumbnails that did work, which is less than half of them.

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  C B placeholder pending better days (@cbavington) reported 42 minutes ago

  @thetrainline The error for the card txns was not very helpful, just said "try again" (that's normal ofc, no merchant gives details of what might be wrong) but the PayPal error mentioned a problem with the "payment system" (this was 9-9:30 last night, Friday)

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  MindyKarmGirl (@TomBren13138498) reported 42 minutes ago

  @artlisa84 PayPal hates me. I have created 4 PW. Tells me to sign in and says something went wrong . Tell me about this other way.

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  Breakaway (@McCourt2010) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz May be stating the bleedin' obvious here... 1. Stop the DD at bank level 2. Close the PayPal account - via the "forgotten password" route 3. Contact Microsoft Support directly - "Services & Subscriptions" see if the storage plan is visible & tied to an active Microsoft login

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  Jason Skadsen (@OptimisticJ33) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Kalshi This is an early-stage report, not a product launch. CoinDesk says 𝕏 is in talks about paying creators in stablecoins (Circle’s USDC is the example named). The source is one person familiar with the discussions who also works with other platforms testing the same idea. 𝕏 has not confirmed anything. Treat it as a live option under review, not a done deal. What is actually changing? Great question… Two separate things are being mixed together: 1. Confirmed: 𝕏 is killing Revenue Sharing. New enrollments already stopped. The old program ends September 7; the last payouts land around September 11. It is replaced by Original Content Rewards, which is supposed to pay for original ideas, reporting, expertise, and commentary instead of ad-impression farming. 2. Unconfirmed: How those new rewards get sent. Today payouts go through Stripe or 𝕏 Money. Stablecoins would be another rail, not the new rewards program itself. Nothing in 𝕏’s official creator announcement mentions crypto. Why would they even consider it? Again, great question… Creator payouts are a messy, global, small-dollar problem. Bank wires, local rails, FX spreads, and minimums eat a lot of what mid-tier creators actually receive especially outside the US. Stablecoins (market cap now over $300 billion) settle in minutes, in dollars, without a correspondent bank in every country. That is the same reason $SPCX already uses them for some Starlink payments in “long-tail” markets. 𝕏 hiring Benji Taylor (ex-Coinbase Base, wallets/DeFi) in March fits the same direction. 𝕏 Money is already rolling to a slice of Premium+ users. YouTube already lets some US creators take PayPal’s PYUSD. Meta has started paying selected creators in USDC on Solana and Polygon. 𝕏 would not be first; it would be the largest social app to try it at scale.

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  Diagnosis:Woman (@The_Great_Null) reported 46 minutes ago

  $100- needed for food by monday. My birthday is at the end of the month too, so any help paying down the $400 I owe ca$ would be lovely. ******** money so I could sleep would also be nice. If anyone can help with any of that, my paypal/venmo/ca$ are all nullthegreat

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  Sylvester Toochukwu (@SylvesterToc) reported 48 minutes ago

  @BSCNews @PayPal Imagination wan kill this project yet they haven't solved 1/3 of the issues ravaging their pioneers.

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  ApoNattawinSG (Having kitkat) (@ApoNattawinSg) reported 54 minutes ago

  @zxcvvnm15 Even for NordVpn? Hmm I used PayPal no issue.

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  chris (@xiresxd) reported 60 minutes ago

  @LoganSesh i've had the same problem, then i choose paypal as payment method and worked

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  𑣲 mattie (@canacorpse) reported 60 minutes ago

  @felicorpse Oooh okay, I personally use paypal, cashapp and venmo Ko-if is also an alternative that I’ve used and haven’t had issues with before