Indie game storefront Itch.io went offline early Monday morning after what it described as a bogus phishing report. While the game store’s servers were still online during the outage, the domain for ...

Popular indie game platform itch.io says its domain was briefly taken down for a few hours Monday morning thanks to an "AI-driven" phishing report spurred by the company behind Funko Pop figures.

“I kid you not, itch.io has been taken down by Funko because they use some trash ‘AI Powered’ Brand Protection Software called BrandShield that created some bogus Phishing report to our ...

In a tweet, Itch.io explained that its domain was disabled as a result of Funko using what it called “some trash ‘AI-powered’ brand protection software” from a company called BrandShield.

Brandshield claims to “detect digital counterfeits” according to their website, and it is likely a page on itch.io triggered a false-positive report from the AI-powered software. However ...

Itch.io says Funko used AI software that falsely flagged it for phishing. The site was down for hours before it was restored.

Itcho.io claims that the company behind Funko Pops uses “some trash AI-powered” software that generated a “bogus phishing report” to the site’s registrar. Although Itch.io responded ...

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Open indie game marketplace itch.io has been taken down by Funko. The company's AI-powered Brandshield IP protection software generated what itch.io describes as "some bogus phishing report to our ...

Itch.io is back online after being down for several hours yesterday amid claims that its domain had been disabled after a "phishing report" was filed against it by Funko, using "AI-powered" brand ...