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Payment app PayPal experienced a brief outage worldwide on Thursday, it confirmed.<\/p>\n
It said in a post on its service status page<\/a> it was experiencing “a system issue” that affecting multiple PayPal Products – including account withdrawal and express checkout.<\/p>\n The company said the technical issue was swiftly resolved.<\/p>\n However, even a brief outage was enough to cause problems for customers, who reported being unable to log in to their accounts or said they were having problems making payments.<\/p>\n Platform outage monitor Downdetector had received more than seven thousand reports from users as of 12:12 GMT.<\/p>\n According to the company’s service status dashboard, the incident began at 10:53 UTC.<\/p>\n It said its cryptocurrency services and peer-to-peer payment app, Venmo, were among its services affected by the outage.<\/p>\n Customers took to social media to post about not being able to access their accounts.<\/p>\n Several users on X, formerly Twitter, posted screenshots of an alert telling them “please check your entries and try again” when attempting to log in.<\/p>\n Founded in 1998, PayPal has grown to become a major, global financial institution.<\/p>\n It told investors in October that its total number of active accounts across its operations had soared to 432 million in the period ending 30 September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n