\n UPDATE: Oct. 16, 2025, 2:08 p.m. PayPal acknowledged a Thursday outage in a statement to Mashable, but said the problem has been fixed.<\/p>\n
“PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service disruption that has since been resolved,” a spokesperson wrote in an email.\n<\/p>\n
\n UPDATE: Oct. 16, 2025, 12:59 p.m. EDT The number of user-reported issues for PayPal and Venmo dropped off precipitously on Down Detector, indicating the problem had been resolved. The payment services’ status page indicated all services were operational.\n<\/p>\n
Both Venmo and PayPal saw a spike<\/a> in user-reported issues<\/a> on Down Detector on Thursday, Oct. 16. That signaled the payment services could be having issues. <\/p>\n \n Mashable Light Speed\n <\/p>\n (Disclosure: Down Detector is owned by Ziff Davis, which also owns Mashable.) <\/p>\n PayPal and Venmo are part of the same company, so it tracks that both might experience problems at the same time. I was able to access Venmo on my phone at about 12:25 p.m. ET, but there remained a number of complaints online from folks who could not do the same.<\/p>\n Users began reporting issues with the payment services on Down Detector at around 11 a.m. ET. PayPal’s status page indicated<\/a> all its services, including Venmo, were operational at about 12:30 p.m., but it remained unclear if all users’ issues were actually resolved. <\/p>\n This story is developing and will be updated as necessary…<\/p>\n \n Topics
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