November 12, 2026
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As you may already know, Bricklink has been down for almost a week now. The popular secondary marketplace went down a week ago on the 5th of November and still has not come back yet.
The Bricklink team have been communicating estimate dates where the site would return, with the latest being 11 November which has now come and gone.
Unfortunately, Bricklink’s return date is now indeterminate, but Bricklink have issued another statement revealing more information about the prolonged outage. Previously Briklink has not communicated anything at all about this, but we now know that they detected “unusual activity on the platform”.
This is of course code for we got hacked/found out that external parties have accessed the platform without authorisation which is pretty serious, considering Bricklink is a massive marketplace and commerce engine for sellers and customers.
It’s been really weird not being able to browse Bricklink. I’m constantly on the site looking up parts, and valuation of sets/minifigures, and not having access to any of that in the past week has been very odd. I also feel for Bricklink sellers who have lost access to sales for over a week now, in what’s meant to be one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. I guess it’s time to properly consider BrickOwl as an alternative to Bricklink, both as a buyer and seller.
If this feels like Deja Vu, you’re not wrong. 3 years ago, Bricklink was also down for an extended period of time due to another hacking/cybersecurity issue, and strangely, that occurred in early November as well, so the parallels between both Bricklink hacking incidents are very bizarre to say the least.
This has been handled very poorly by Bricklink and its parent company The LEGO Group. The lack of communication has been awful, and only finding out a week later that it was due to a hack/cybersecurity incident does not fill me with a lot of confidence that this is being handled well behind the scenes. Also, hardening a commerce site from hacking should be priority number 1 from a company the size of The LEGO Group, so this really reflects poorly on LEGO’s digital infrastructure and capabilities.
And perhaps related, the 2028 Wave 1 results which was meant to happen today, has been pushed back to 1 December 2026. I hope the 1 December isn’t the date that Bricklink comes back..
See Bricklink’s statement below:
BrickLink is temporarily unavailable
We took BrickLink offline after identifying unusual activity on the platform. Our immediate priority was to secure the site, protect our members and ensure the integrity of BrickLink.
Before bringing the site back online, we need to fully understand what has happened. That means containing the issue, investigating how it happened and checking for related issues.
This work is still on-going and we appreciate your patience while we work to get things back online as soon as possible.
Updated: 11th November 2026
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