Lego’s BrickLink remains offline with no return date
BrickLink, the Lego-owned marketplace for buying and selling parts and sets, has been offline for a week after Lego detected “unusual activity” on the platform. The company has withdrawn an earlier expected return date and says it cannot yet estimate when the site will reopen.
Lego said it took the marketplace offline to secure the site, protect members and preserve BrickLink’s integrity. It has not detailed what happened. Before restoring access, the company said, it must contain the issue, investigate how it occurred and check for related problems.
BrickLink had been expected to return on November 11, according to Jay’s Brick Blog. In a statement posted to the site yesterday, Lego said there was no current estimate for its return.
The outage follows a similar incident three years ago, when BrickLink was down for several days because of a cybersecurity issue. Lego then shut the site “out of an abundance of caution” after receiving a “threat and ransom demand.” When the marketplace reopened, users were asked to set stronger passwords and were told their accounts had not been compromised in that incident.
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