PayPal and Venmo Experience Major Outage, Disrupting Users Worldwide Before Service Restored.

 On October 16, 2025, PayPal and its mobile payments arm Venmo suffered a widespread outage that disrupted service for thousands of users across the United States and other regions.

Users reported being logged out, unable to access account balances, and encountering error messages when trying to log in or send and receive funds. According to outage tracker reports, incident reports spiked into the thousands during late morning U.S. hours and gradually declined after midday. PayPal eventually confirmed the incident, stating that “PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service disruption that has since been resolved,” though the company has not disclosed a definitive cause for the outage. By afternoon, most services had been restored, and user reports had dropped significantly.

During the outage, PayPal’s official status page remained slow to reflect the problem—marking systems as operational even while user complaints surged. Many affected users expressed frustration on social media platforms, citing concerns over delayed transactions, inaccessible funds, and interruptions to business operations that depend on the payment services. At present, PayPal and Venmo appear to have recovered full functionality, but lingering questions remain about transparency, root causes, and steps to prevent similar incidents in the future.