PayPal Experiences Global Outage, Disrupting Key Services

The outage, linked to a technical issue with PayPal's API, impacted payments, logins, and merchant transactions before being resolved.

PayPal confirmed a global outage affecting multiple services, including Venmo, cryptocurrency transactions, and express checkout.
The issue, traced to the company's GraphQL API, caused widespread login failures and disrupted payment processing for merchants and users.
Outage reports peaked at over 8,700 on monitoring platform Downdetector, with users reporting errors and missing account information.
The outage began around 10:53 UTC and was resolved later in the day, though the exact cause remains unclear.
PayPal stated its technical teams worked actively to resolve the issue, but has not yet disclosed whether it was caused by a cyberattack or internal error.