30/08/2025
🇩🇪 PAYPAL MELTS DOWN IN GERMANY, €10B FROZEN, CHAOS UNLOCKED
Massive chaos as German banks block PayPal direct debits worth over €10 billion after the company’s fraud system stopped working.
Now merchants aren’t getting paid, customers are keeping their cash, and the entire system’s glitching out.
The official PayPal status page lists multiple services as “under maintenance,” including payouts and merchant tools.
The outage comes just days after millions of user records reportedly appeared on the dark web.
Source: Bild, Süddeutsche Zeitung