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- Roblox user data leaked online after failed extortion attack
- Popular platform says it has refused to meet demands of hackers who leaked information on gamers.
- Roblox has seen user data leaked online after a failed data extortion attack by an unknown cybercriminal. The leak of four gigabytes of documents apparently from the gaming company includes emails and spreadsheets on several games on the platform, as well as personal data of individual users. Roblox says it has not complied with the hacker’s demands for payment to return the information.
- Roblox is one of the world’s biggest gaming platforms (Photo by Imgorthand/iStock)
- A selection of the stolen data has been posted by the hacker on a dark web forum, which was obtained from a Roblox employee in a social engineering attack, according to a report by Vice.
- “These stolen documents were illegally obtained as part of an extortion scheme that we refused to cooperate with,” Roblox said. “We acted quickly upon learning of the incident, engaged independent experts to complement our information security team and have tuned our systems to seek to detect and prevent similar attempts.”
- Roblox is one of the world’s largest gaming platforms, with more than 37 million daily users. It allows creators to develop their own games within the company’s universe, which can be monetised through microtransactions between gamers using the company’s digital currency, Robux. The company generated revenue of $1.9bn in 2021.
- Roblox hack: other gaming platforms targeted
- Gaming companies have long been a popular target for online criminals. In 2011, one of the biggest data breaches of all time hit users of Sony’s PlayStation Network online system, with the personal information of 77m gamers being leaked following a cyberattack. It led to a 23-day outage for the service.
- Indeed, Roblox itself has been hit by hackers before. In 2020, Vice reported that one of the company’s employees had been bribed by a cybercriminal to allow them access to the company’s back-end system, where they could find information on users.
- Earlier this month gaming giant Bandai Namco, creator of titles including PacMan, Tekken and Dark Souls, suffered a data leak similar to that experienced by Roblox. Bandai Namco said it “experienced an unauthorised access by a third-party to the internal systems of several group companies in Asia (excluding Japan)”. It added that investigations into the extent of the leak were ongoing.
- Ransomware gang ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, took credit for Bandai Namco’s hack a week later, posting the name of the company to its dark web blog.
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- Luckymaxer
- RBLXLucky (formerly Luckymaxer) is a former Roblox administrator who joined on April 19, 2008. He was terminated on an unknown date in 2017 but was later unbanned at an unknown date. He worked on scripting and fixing gears from late 2014 to early 2017 and coded the Egg Hunt 2016: Eggcellent Adventure event game.
- Termination
- RBLXLucky was terminated for making inappropriate hats from the Bunny Ears 2017 with module scripts, which were modified without having to update items on the avatar shop, allowing him to have perks that a regular player wouldn't have in nearly every game that supported accessories. [citation needed]
- Despite his termination, his account was later reopened under the name of RBLXLucky. Almost every limited item on his account was moved/sold to other accounts. The most iconic one is serial #1 of the Dominus Frigidus, which was given/traded to (and still currently owned by) bIazies.
- Trivia
- This section is a trivia section. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections of the article.
- When his account was reopened under RBLXLucky, he did not have the Administrator badge on his profile anymore.
- He won a ROBLOX Tablet back in 2012. A full list of the winners can be found here. The tablet today is still in the inventory from one of his alternate accounts.
- He is the only original owner of one of the tablets to be terminated.
- There is no evidence of Luckymaxer hiring g00byd0lan, or even hacking Blox Fruits for the matter, these are all rumors as of now.
- On 1/11/2023, Luckymaxer would confirm on his Twitter that he was not involved in the hack, doesn't know who g00byd0lan, and the Discord server is not his [1] .
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