Last night the online acceptance service PayPal went offline for 8 hours starting at about 8 p.m. CDT. All you could get from clicking on any PayPal link or button on any of millions of web sites was a message that this unexpected prime-time outage was “routine maintenance”. This morning, PayPal is only partially functional.
Although PayPal is not a bank, they process and hold more money than do many actual banks. They are the primary payment service for eBay, who finally bought the PayPal corporation, on eBay.
What puzzles me is that I can find no news report about this, unlike the outage last year (6/1/07).
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