Security News > 2020 > January > Fraud spike prompts Chrome developer lock-out

Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store.

Earlier this month the Chrome Web Store team detected a significant increase in the number of fraudulent transactions involving paid Chrome extensions that aim to exploit users.

Developers would have to go through this rigmarole with each new version they published while the company sorted out the problem.

Vincent told him to contact developer support, but according to another developer in the conversation, the team responded that it was unable to help.

Google didn't elaborate on the nature of the fraud, but on Monday Vincent updated the post to clarify that only items using the Chrome Web Store payments system were affected.

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