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Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2025-08-28

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: David Meyer

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PayPal experienced a failure in its fraud-detection or payment systems that prompted German banks to stop PayPal direct debits, freezing around €10 billion in transactions and disrupting commerce; simultaneous but unverified claims of millions of exposed PayPal credentials circulated, though PayPal denied a breach and said the outage was resolved.

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