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  Operators of the prominent secondhand and collector platform are keeping the service completely shut down while investigating potential disruptions across the system. The extended downtime follows an initial claim of planned maintenance, yet officials have not disclosed if customer accounts or personal data have been compromised. Enthusiasts and traders are currently left without an estimated return date as the investigation continues.

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• Lock Your GitHub Actions

  Software teams can now safeguard their continuous integration pipelines against mutable tag exploits without sacrificing the readability of human-friendly version labels. This new security standard separates tag definitions from cryptographic commit hashes by generating a dedicated pinning file across repositories. The shift simplifies dependency maintenance while preventing attackers from silently redirecting legitimate version tags to malicious payloads.

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