Important personal information such as email addresses and credentials of some creators was stolen from Roblox’s internal database. The company confirmed the allegations and launched an investigation into the matter.
The size of the stolen documents is about 4 GB. According to Vice, hackers stole these documents by threatening a Roblox employee. According to the company’s statement, the stolen documents are part of an extortion plan against Roblox. Roblox states that it will not cooperate with hackers and will not fulfill any of their requests.
According to Vice, Roblox made the following statement on the subject:
“These stolen documents were illegally obtained as part of an extortion scheme that we refused to cooperate with. 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.”
The company believes that a Roblox employee was exposed to threats and intimidation, leaking or causing this information to leak. The following statement is made on the subject:
“Roblox has been actively investigating a phishing incident, which involved a Roblox employee being targeted by cybercriminals [through social engineering tactics/using highly personalized scare tactics].”
Roblox is a platform with millions of players all over the world. Some content producers make money by designing games for Roblox and even make a living this way. The value of the company is close to 70 billion dollars. The fact that such a large platform is exposed to threats and blackmail from hackers worries users.
