Popular Lego marketplace went offline after a ‘ransom’ demand

Closeup of a Lego Batcave set. | Image: Lego BrickLink, the unofficial online Lego parts marketplace, is back online after several days of downtime due to a cybersecurity incident that apparently targeted some merchant accounts. The company said it received a “threat and ransom demand” last Friday, presumably in regard to company or user data, leading it to shut down the site “out of an abundance of caution.”
The site has been detecting “limited suspicious activity&