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PayPal hit by internet outage
10/08/2009
PayPal has become the latest major casualty of an internet outage.
The company was hit by four hours of downtime last week due to a network hardware failure, which affected users around the globe.
Scott Guilfoyle, senior vice-president of technology at the firm, said: "Everyone in our organisation focused immediately on identifying the issue and getting PayPal up and running again. We accomplished that in about an hour. By approximately 3pm Pacific time [11pm BST] full service was restored across our platform."
"We are now working to fully understand how we can prevent such a service interruption from ever happening again."
Other high profile businesses suffering major outage problems in recent times include Twitter, Facebook and Eircom.
Twitter was subjected to a denial of service attack last week which forced the company offline for several hours.
Writing on the company's blog, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that defending against a denial of service attack was the last thing they wanted to be doing.
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