Itch.io went offline due to a ‘trash AI-powered’ phishing report

Image: Epic Games Indie game storefront Itch.io went offline early Monday morning after what it described as a bogus phishing report. While the game store’s servers were still online during the outage, the domain for the website pointed towards IP addresses that itch.io doesn’t own — making it inaccessible for most people.
After going offline at around 2AM ET, the site seemed to come back at around 7AM ET. Itch.io blames pop culture collectibles company Funko for the issues in