Beckett reportedly restores grading submissions; price guide offline
Phase 1 reportedly went live October 15, 2026 with accounts, US and EU submissions, population reports and cert lookups. Price Guide and Marketplace have no date.
After about five weeks offline, Beckett has reportedly relaunched the initial portion of its web platform. Reports put the launch of Phase 1 of the digital service restoration on October 15, 2026. Customer accounts are back, along with the Online Submission Center, used for card grading, and it is listed for customers in the US and EU.
The Online Price Guide, Beckett Marketplace, and the Dealer Admin portals remain offline, and no return date has been announced.
What came back in Phase 1
Five services are listed as restored:
- Customer Accounts
- Online Submission Center, which handles card grading for customers in the US and EU
- Population Reports
- BGS Certificate Lookup
- BAS (Beckett Authentication Services) Certificate Lookup
With BGS Certificate Lookup, a buyer types in the cert number printed on a BGS slab to confirm the label's card, grade, and subgrades are accurate. Beckett-authenticated autographs can be verified through BAS Certificate Lookup using the cert number.
What is still offline
The Dealer Admin portals, Beckett Marketplace, and the Online Price Guide make up Phase 2. All three are still offline, with no date announced.
Phase 3 covers new autograph submissions through BAS and mobile app updates. Both are still offline, with no date announced either.
The three-phase plan was laid out in Beckett's October 2 statement, and it came without dates.
How the outage unfolded
Around September 9–10, in early September 2026, Beckett's platforms went dark, and visitors to the site were sent to a maintenance page.
Beckett's October 2 statement said that suspicious technical activity turned up while it was carrying out planned modernization of legacy IT systems. As a precaution, the platforms were taken offline. Outside security experts helped run a forensic investigation, which has turned up nothing indicating that sensitive customer information was affected.
Beckett adds that every card in its custody is secure and protected at its facility. Per the company, its historical population databases, along with grade records and certification data, have not been compromised and remain intact.
The company has stopped short of labeling the incident a cyberattack or data breach, and it names no cause either, such as ransomware, an internal error, an outside attack, or any other.
Compensation and workarounds
To compensate for the outage, Beckett is reported to have offered Online Price Guide subscribers free access lasting 60 days. Whether Beckett has confirmed this, and how the access works, is not stated.
Reports also say Beckett continued to take Express grading submissions during the downtime, using a pared-down form.
What it means for collectors
- US and EU submitters: accounts have been restored, and listings show the Online Submission Center open once more.
- Slab buyers: BAS Certificate Lookup is working again, as is BGS Certificate Lookup, and Population Reports have returned too.
- Autograph submitters: new BAS autograph submissions are part of Phase 3, which has no date.
- Dealers and Price Guide users: Phase 2 includes the Dealer Admin portals, the Marketplace, and the Price Guide; no date is given. Subscribers to the Price Guide should look into the reported 60-day extension.
What is still unknown
Neither Phase 2 nor Phase 3 has an announced date. The nature and cause of the suspicious technical activity have not been attributed.
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