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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

eBay acknowledges ‘technical issues’ after users report outage

  • eBay experienced an outage from Sunday, continuing through Monday, which affected shoppers and sellers across its platform.
  • The disruption led to sellers being unable to list products via the site's API and some users reporting difficulties paying for items.
  • eBay acknowledged "intermittent technical issues" and said that its teams were actively working to restore full functionality.
  • Downdetector, a service that tracks website outages, recorded more than 1,300 user reports of the eBay disruption at its peak on Sunday evening.
  • An Iran-linked hacktivist group, 313 Team, claimed responsibility for the outage, alleging they launched an attack, though this claim remains unverified.

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EBay’s technical outages have lasted for days and left some users unable to access the website

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