All of a sudden... "extension may have been corrupted"

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Edge has disabled the BW extension…
Repair link didn’t work and I couldn’t re-enable the extension.
I uninstalled and reinstalled which worked, but what caused that? Was there a malicious attempt to hack Bitwarden extension? (I never had that problem with LastPass)

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Hello Hugh, and welcome to the community!

The problem you described is rare and will most likely induce few responses. If you Google-search with the string “Edge This extension may have been corrupted,” you can see that the posters didn’t come to any good conclusion, including in BW, which the issues was closed without any resolution:

You’ll also see that this happened to users of 1Password and Lastpass, with the 1Password user deploying the compatible Chrome extension.

You may be able to use some of these alternatives:

  1. Just hope that it doesn’t happen again
  2. Put your computer into safe mode and full-scan with Windows Defender, and repeat with MalwareByte
  3. Contact customer service to see if they have any other suggestions