Roblox servers were hacked, hackers leaked personal information and demanded ransom
Email addresses and user IDs have been posted in online forums, management refuses to cooperate with the requirement
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20/07/2022
Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 13:55
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Roblox (Photo: Official Website, Roblox)
Roblox is an online platform that gives users all the tools to create their own games and interactions, and allows them to monetize the content.
It gets millions of users every day (adults and children alike), and even the Spotify company and has set up its own island from Towers through the platform.
Over the past day, Roblox's servers appear to have been attacked by hackers, who posted an internal document in Motherboared's forums containing details of various employees and content creators, in an attempt to blackmail the company, according to a post in the forums and a statement released by Roblox.
Roblox (Photo: Official Website, Roblox)
The file weighs about 4 GB and contains personal details of employees and content creators and their games - such as email addresses and various identification details, and according to the suspicion the file was probably stolen from one of the company's employees.
Roblox's management said: "The documents were stolen in an attempt to blackmail the company, but we are not cooperating."
"We acted on the issue as soon as we got over the incident and consulted with a number of security bodies who instructed our security teams on how to improve our information systems in order to prevent such similar incidents in the future."
This is a particularly disturbing incident for the gaming giant, valued at $ 68 billion, especially given the fact that like Minecraft or Fortnite, the platform is designed and marketed itself for children - and it is estimated that about half of the US child population consumes and uses the platform.
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Roblox (Photo: Official Website, Roblox)
This is not the first time Roblox has been under attack: about two years ago a hacker managed to bribe an internal employee of the company to give him access to information about some of the most popular users on the platform, and managed to gain control of those accounts.
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