BrickLink offline after LEGO detects unusual activity
· FPTWaze news desk
LEGO took the BrickLink marketplace offline after detecting unusual activity. No cause or return date is confirmed yet, so stay alert to scams.
LEGO has taken BrickLink, its marketplace for LEGO parts, sets and minifigures, offline after detecting what it calls unusual activity. The company is still investigating and has not said whether attackers got into its systems or whether customer data was affected.
BrickLink is used by collectors to buy and sell pieces and by independent sellers as a business, so the outage also blocks access to orders and storefronts. The site had earlier been set to stay down until at least November 11. That date has now been removed, with no new date given.
The BBC reported that LEGO had not confirmed a hack. It also described one customer who received repeated payment links for a preorder she said she had already paid for. LEGO told the BBC it was not aware of wider payment issues, and no connection has been shown between that case and the shutdown. BrickLink also closed in November 2023 after credential stuffing attacks.
Until the cause is known, users should be careful. Treat messages that ask you to restore access or confirm payment details as possible phishing, and check through the official website rather than following links in the message. If you reuse your BrickLink password elsewhere, change it on those accounts now, and change your BrickLink password once the site returns.
Source: Malwarebytes Blog ↗. This summary is prepared automatically from the official source and may contain mistakes; the source is authoritative.