Payments business PayPal has been hit by "technical issues" in the UK that have led to a string of transactions being sent for security checks. PayPal is primarily used by traders on auction site eBay to make and receive secure payments during sales. Changes to the system were planned to speed up the process when customers transfer money from their PayPal account to their normal bank account. But the volume of transactions led to a glitch with security checks. A host of transfers have been held for security checks, rather than the funds being transferred quickly to customers' bank accounts......Read more here: BBC News - PayPal hit by over security checks