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A collector's Beckett data-breach suit vanished the week the site went dark

The lawsuit vanished exactly when Beckett's site did — with no explanation for either.

Two facts landed in the same week, and neither party has explained the overlap. On 5 August, Douglas Larson sued Beckett in New Mexico federal court over a November 2025 breach that exposed roughly a million accounts — names, emails, phone numbers and physical addresses. Beckett never publicly addressed the breach when cybersecurity researchers first reported it, and it still has not filed a response to Larson's complaint. On 11 September, Larson voluntarily dismissed the case. That same week Beckett took its entire site and app offline for what it called "infrastructure enhancements" — the outage this wire already covered, which killed cert lookup, the pop report, price guide, marketplace, registry and account access with no restoration date given.

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