PayPal experiences brief global outage

PayPal experienced a brief worldwide outage on Thursday after a "systems issue".

Paypal said withdrawals, express checkout, cryptocurrency services, its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo, and its foreign-currency division, Xoom, had all been affected.

PayPal said the "ongoing" incident began at 1053 GMT but later stated the "brief technical issue" had been resolved

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com