Paypal crashed this afternoon, sending online putting virtual shopping at a stand-still.
It's scary to imagine how much e-commerce has been lost due to the outage, but the number is sure to be staggering.
Just do a quick search for Paypal stories on Twitter and you'll see how much of an impact this had on our society. Things started returning to normal around 5pm EDT.
Here is what Paypal had to say about it...
EVENT DETAILS
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Service: Live SiteDuring the time listed below you may have or currently are experiencing the following:
Buyers may experience error “Sorry - your last action could not be completed” on trying to login to www.paypal.com.
Payments via API are intermittently unavailable.Affected Product(s):
- Website
- PayPal APIsStart Time: Aug 03, 10:15 AM PDT (Aug 03, 6:15 PM BST)
End Time: On-Going
Our technical teams are working diligently to resolve the issue. We will provide updates until the issue is resolved.
We apologize for any impact caused by this incident.
Sincerely,
PayPal Merchant Technical Services
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