PayPal experienced a global outage that affected multiple products for about two hours on November 21.
The incident lasted from 10:53 UTC to 12:59 UTC and impacted account withdrawals, express checkout, cryptocurrency, the receive money function of Xoom, and several functions of Venmo.
PayPal posted its initial notification at 12:15 UTC and resolved the issue at 12:59 UTC on the same day.
During the outage, Downdetector reported a surge in PayPal problem reports, peaking at 8,735 reports.