# PayPal Outage Today? (1/8)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paypal-outage-today-1-8/223513>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 8, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paypal-outage-today-1-8/223513 "2004-01-08T21:50:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Stanislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Stanislav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislav)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paypal-outage-today-1-8/223513/1 "2004-01-08T21:50:59Z")

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I have been unable to get into PayPal all day today. Even the main start page does not come up.

I’ve searched news sources and don’t see anything about PayPal having a major outage – as popular as the site is, you would think it would make the news if they crashed or had a major hacking/DOS attack.

Could some of you guys who have PayPal accounts see if you can log in or even get the start page to come up? Just to reassure me that I’m not going crazy? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paypal-outage-today-1-8/223513/2 "2004-01-08T22:14:14Z")

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I just checked mine, no problem.