People who visited Lego's website on the evening of October 4 were greeted by a banner with gold coins illustrated with the company's logo, stating that the “Lego coin” is now officially available. He even promised “secret rewards” to those who bought some. But Lego wasn't actually launching an official cryptocurrency coin and, according to shop-hacked-by-crypto-scam/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The Brick Fan;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>The brick fanthe buy button led to an external cryptocurrency website selling “LEGO Tokens” with ethereum. The website was apparently hijacked by bad actors who changed their banner and used it for some kind of crypto scam.
As users in the Lego subreddit As we have noted, the incident occurred overnight at Lego headquarters. However, the company responded relatively quickly and removed the banner and unauthorized links. At the time of writing this article, the Lego fortnite The collaboration banner is active again and the “buy now” link leads to the collection. Lego told Engadget that no user accounts were compromised and that it identified the cause of the problem. It also said it was putting measures in place to prevent something similar from happening again in the future. However, the company has refused to share details about that “cause” or the measures it is implementing.
Here is the company's official statement:
“On October 5, 2024 (October 4 evening in the US), an unauthorized banner briefly appeared on LEGO.com. It was quickly removed and the issue was resolved. No user accounts were compromised and users “Customers can continue shopping as usual. The cause has been identified and we are putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again.”
