This is the 1st hand news from ChinaItBlog. Alipay, the biggest online payment platform in China, is experiencing site downtime on Thursday Afternoon. It’s an accident caused by a careless deployment.

alipay is down

Alipay is considered as  “The Paypal of China”, and processes over 1 billion RMB trading everyday . This sudden maintenance has also affected taobao. The users of taobao, are not able to pay for transactions they’ve created.

taobao down

Alipay said it would be back in an hour, in its annoucement.