PayPal back after global fault hit every account Monday night

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UPDATED Failure meant all transactions made after 5pm UK time appeared to 'vanish into thin air'

UPDATED - A spokeperson from Paypal has contacted Computing to claim that only some regions were affected by the fault which rendered transactions invisible to its users for many hours from 5th Oct...

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