PayPal's Website Down !!

Note: The financial processor for eBay buyers and sellers has been offline all day today, with no comment by eBay officials, and no access to any page on PayPal. PayPal like to note they have fifty million subscribers worldwide, so this is a major outage...especially when eBay will not say anything about it.
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ABC News
Glitch Disrupts EBay's PayPal ServiceSoftware

SAN JOSE, Calif. Oct. 11, 2004 — Repairs were underway Monday at PayPal as the widely used online payment service struggled to get customers back on track after several days of "intermittent" outages.

Users of the eBay Inc.-owned company began experiencing some glitches on Friday after a monthly upgrade of PayPal's software systems, said eBay spokeswoman Amanda Pires. The problems seemed to subside over the weekend but then recurred Monday, she said.

It is unclear how many of PayPal users were affected. Pires said some users were able to access PayPal while others were not.

PayPal is a common method of payment for buyers on eBay and is gaining in popularity among customers of other online retailers as well as in money transactions between individuals in the off-line world.

Pires could not estimate when the service would return to normal. "We're working to get it fixed as soon as possible," she said. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast