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PayPal experienced a ‘system issue’ that affected payments to merchants
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PayPal experienced a ‘system issue’ that affected payments to merchants

PayPal said Thursday it was “experiencing a system issue” that appears to be disrupting merchants’ ability to process payments.

The San Jose, California-based tech giant published an incident report on its website Thursday saying the outage “may impact multiple products in our manufacturing environment.”

‘Merchants may encounter an increased number of’ error messages.


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PayPal said Thursday it was “experiencing a system issue” that appears to be disrupting merchants’ ability to process payments. REUTERS

“Our technical teams are actively working to resolve the issue,” the company said.

The Post has reached out to PayPal for comment.

The Downdetector website shows at least 8,700 reports from PayPal users of an outage as of 7 a.m. Eastern Time.

However, from 8.30am the number of reported outages on Downdetector dropped significantly and the site appeared accessible to users.