Following a string of recent reports about fraudulent transactions using the Chrome Web Store’s (CWS) paid extension system, Google is temporarily suspending all such Chrome extensions from the platform, pending a resolution. In an official statement on Tuesday, the company cited a “significant increase in the number of fraudulent transactions involving paid Chrome extensions” as the reason behind its tough stance. Thankfully, items that do not use the Chrome Web Store payments are not affected by this issue.
As things stand now, there’s no timeline at this point for the ban to be lifted, so it will be interesting to see how the company manages to address long-term security issues going forward.
