PAYPAL
// ACTIVE OUTAGES
Resolved: Impact to BNPL (Pay Later) authorizations (PP-LIVE-110179)
⚪ PayPal's Buy Now, Pay Later got a little too literal about the 'later' part and started declining everything. Global checkout errors ensued while engineers performed financial triage. Now resolved, so your impulse purchases can resume their regularly scheduled deductions.
Detected Resolved: Impacted Productions to Multiple Venmo products (PP-LIVE-109929)
⚪ PayPal's Venmo split into competing products and somehow got them all working again. Engineers claim the issue is 'resolved' but we all know it's just unconscious in the recovery room. Global scope means nobody escaped the chaos.
Resolved: Impact to PayPal Reports (PP-LIVE-107833)
⚪ PayPal's reporting system decided to ghost merchants harder than a bad Tinder date. The TZ6 crew watched their data vanish into the void while engineers frantically performed CPR. Plot twist: it lived. Barely.
// INCIDENT HISTORY
| Date | Incident | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | Initial Notification: Hyperwallet (PP-LIVE-110014) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-09-23 | Detected Resolved: Impact to Braintree Apple Pay Tokenization (PP-LIVE-109944) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-09-22 | Resolved: Impact to PayPal Checkout (PP-LIVE-109937) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-09-10 | Resolved: Impact to Venmo Payments (PP-LIVE-108344) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-08-15 | Resolved: Impact to Refunds, Payments, Authorizations, Captures, Orders, United States Transaction Processing, Canadian Transaction Processing, European Transaction Processing, APAC Transaction Proce | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-08-15 | Resolved: Impact to Refunds, Payments, Authorizations, Pay with PayPal Integration (PP-LIVE-108078) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-08-04 | Resolved: Impact to PayPal Checkout in Merchant Native Mobile Apps (PP-LIVE-107938) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-08-01 | Initial Notification: Hyperwallet (PP-LIVE-107915) | ⚪ Resolved |
| 2026-07-27 | Resolved: Impact to Withdrawals (PP-LIVE-107852) | ⚪ Resolved |
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