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Lego has taken its BrickLink resale marketplace offline after detecting what it called unusual activity on the platform, and it has been down for three days. BBC US & Canada reported that Lego said it wants to fully understand what happened before restoring the site, which involves containing the issue, investigating how it happened and checking for related issues. Lego has not said whether the site was breached or hacked or whether any customer data was affected. BrickLink, originally set up by a fan and acquired by Lego in 2019, is used by collectors worldwide to buy and sell secondhand sets, source bricks and purchase limited edition releases. BrickLink is known as the eBay of Lego. The BBC reported that collector Melanie Hoskin, who has been collecting Lego for 45 years, received multiple requests for payment for a limited edition release she had already paid for, and that Lego did not believe the payment had been taken and at one point said it would ban her. Lego has since said the payment problem is resolved and that it is not aware of wider payment issues, though it is unclear whether the glitch connected to the outage. An earlier message said the site would return by Wednesday evening, but that message has been deleted and no return date is now given.