Google said illegal purchases started in early January. Google engineers identified fraudulent transactions as being scale-up The suspension is triggered by a substantial increase in the number of paying extensions involved in fraudulent transactions. Developers who try to update or publish a new commercial Chrome extension receive an automated message Spam and Placement in the Store while existing trade extensions can still be downloaded from the Google Chrome Web Store, developers can not upgrade those extensions. Dashlane and Comeet (Meeting Planner) are a large-scale expansion impacted by the temporary ban.”]