Worldwide Outage Stymies PayPal Customers

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 3, 2009 7:00 PM CDT
Worldwide Outage Stymies PayPal Customers
An eBay/PalPal sign stands outside eBay offices in San Jose, Calif.   (AP Photo)

Online pay service PayPal was down for about five hours today, the Wall Street Journal reports, potentially derailing millions of transactions. A rep for parent eBay attributed the outage to an “internal network hardware issue,” and couldn’t say how many customers were affected; PayPal has previously said it processes about $2,000 in transactions each second.
(More PayPal stories.)

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