Venmo Outage Disrupts US Users on December 3

A widespread outage struck the Venmo payment app on Wednesday evening, December 3, 2025, preventing thousands of users across the United States from sending or receiving money for several hours. The disruption, which began around 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, affected app functionality in major cities including Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., before the company restored service early Thursday morning.

According to Downdetector, an outage-tracking website, reports of problems surged rapidly, peaking at more than 70,000 complaints nationwide. Users encountered a range of issues, including login failures, app crashes, and failed transaction attempts. Data from the site indicated that 64 percent of reports involved problems within the app itself, 23 percent concerned login errors, and 13 percent related to money transfers. The spike in complaints grew from about 4,000 around 3:50 p.m. Pacific Time to tens of thousands within the hour, highlighting the outage's sudden onset during peak evening usage.

Venmo, a peer-to-peer payment service owned by PayPal with approximately 92 million active users, acknowledged the issue on its official X account that...