Lego’s BrickLink marketplace has been unavailable to buyers and sellers for a week, and the company has not said when the site will come back. The online marketplace, which Lego acquired in 2019, lets fans buy and sell individual parts and sets. It went offline on November 5th. The team running the site has posted updates during the outage, including past estimates of a return date, but Lego told Jay’s Brick Blog on November 11th that it has no current estimate for when BrickLink will be back online.
Lego has not detailed what happened, but said it took BrickLink offline after identifying unusual activity on the platform. According to the company, its first priority was to secure the site, protect its members and ensure the integrity of BrickLink. Lego said it must fully understand the situation before restoring service, which means containing the issue, investigating how it happened and checking for related issues.
The outage echoes an earlier episode. Three years ago, around the same time of year, BrickLink was offline for several days because of a cybersecurity incident. At the time, Lego shut the site down out of an abundance of caution after receiving a threat and ransom demand. When BrickLink returned, users were asked to change their passwords with stronger requirements, and they were assured their accounts had not been compromised in that incident.
For the US audience, the disruption affects American Lego fans and small sellers who rely on BrickLink to trade parts and sets, with no firm timeline for restored access.
Lego has not said whether member data was affected in the current outage. The company has not provided a cause, a scope or a recovery schedule beyond saying the investigation is ongoing. BrickLink remains offline as of November 12th.
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