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Feb 28, 2024 · Between 2021 and 2023, 34 million credentials from the Roblox gaming platform have been exposed on the dark web, marking a significant increase in cybercriminal activity targeting the platform. Notably, the number of compromised accounts has steadily risen, surging by 231% over the past three years, from approximately 4.7 million in 2021 to 15. ...
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- We discover Roblox's teenager hackers, the system that enables them, and their victims.
- The future is Roblox
- "I rushed through the door to find her sobbing"
By Luke Winkie
Updated: Dec 28, 2022 7:22 pm
Posted: Dec 28, 2022 3:15 pm
In the depths of the Roblox criminal Discord network, a scammer from across the void shows me his best score. A screenshot materializes in the chat — it contains the uncensored username, password, and IP address of a Roblox account that was allegedly captured in his snare. There were 467,985 Robux in the target's wallet at the time of the hack, equivalent to about $5,850.
"I scripted something called a pin cracker. I run it, crack their pin, and it auto-unverifies their email," says the scammer, when I ask how they prevent their victims from reclaiming their Roblox identity. "They get logged off, and I change everything."
Could it really be that simple? I didn't know what to believe. The panels of these Discord servers bloom with illicit content — almost like the Anarchist's Cookbook for Roblox hoodlums. A marketplace zooms by in one of the sub-channels where swindlers offload troves of plundered goods; Roblox accounts and items, sure, but also instructions on how to steal those assets in the first place.
Roblox was released in 2006 as a free-to-play sandbox for its 164 million active users. The platform offers its users the tools to create their own video games within the overarching Roblox universe, as well as the ability to earn revenue from their creations. As Roblox became more popular, developers generated increasingly elaborate projects. Today, the service is home to first-person shooters, management simulators, and a bevy of loose, social spaces that serve the same purpose as Club Penguin for kids of an older generation. In fact, you could make the argument that Roblox, in its current form, is the most prominent "metaverse" available on the internet.
"Kids are using Roblox to socialize. You can see it had massive growth during the pandemic. It's a place to hang out, just like that Facebookian metaverse we're being promised," says Quintin Smith, a longtime games journalist who published two robust investigations into Roblox's underbelly with his company, People Make Games. "You can look at Roblox and say, 'Yes, this is the future.'"
"In the design community, people call me the Fairy Godmother, so that's where the avatar comes from. I've got the wand and hat, giant sewing needle and frills...I was trying to keep this magical and fashion sense to it."
-@Anareloux, Roblox Fashion Designer pic.twitter.com/JtTctUS9Lc
— Roblox (@Roblox) December 6, 2022
As Smith dug into Roblox, it became increasingly clear that a cutthroat financial system coursed through this ascendent metaverse — incentivizing some questionable baronial instincts within a video game that is primarily enjoyed by children. Smith was particularly taken aback by the stock market-like system that powers Roblox's catalog of limited items, which is a heady topic I'll attempt to explain as succinctly as possible. Essentially, Roblox hosts a storefront that sells cosmetic items that are only stocked in a finite supply. Those items are sold until Roblox HQ removes them from store shelves, after which they can only change hands by reselling them to other users for Robux or other cosmetics, potentially adding up to a profit. There are entire websites that track the fluctuating values of various cosmetics in the game, allowing any enterprising shark to speculate on the ebbs and flows of the exchange.
As always, it's important to remember that the victims of these scams are often young and uniquely vulnerable to bad actors on the internet. Kristen Dagg watched her daughter "Alice" save up all of the money she received for her 11th birthday, about 240 AUD, so she could spend it all on Roblox cosmetics. (Dagg asked us to use a pseudonym for her daughter.) Alice bought some brand-new character faces, and decided to trade some of her other items to raise extra funds to afford more accessories.
"She agreed on a trade and was tricked into clicking on a link which enabled the scammer to access all of her inventory. He wiped her out of her valuable items," remembers Dagg. "I got a call, as I wasn't home, and she couldn't speak. My partner was home with her and I could hear him furiously typing in the background, trying to help. I rushed through the door to find her sobbing, white as a ghost and having a full blown panic attack."
Alice tells me that she "didn't even know" she needed to trust whoever scammed her. "I thought I knew what I was doing and it was going to be okay," she said. "I didn't know this scam existed."
Dagg mentions that Alice's relationship with the game has never been the same. The crime made her daughter far more vigilant on Roblox. "It's kind of like a person who has committed a petty crime going to jail for the first time, and once they get in there they trust too many people and get messed up," she says. "So they learn the ways of survival and become part of the necessarily brutal environment. It's a dog eat dog world, and now, half a year on, my daughter is queen of the prison yard."
Roblox, to reiterate, is one of the largest sources of children's entertainment in the world. Forty-three million players log into it everyday, and countless kids rely on the servers to keep them connected with their friends during the dog days of the pandemic. So it's strange to hear a parent compare the game to a prison yard. After talking to the flippers, gamblers, and hustlers of the Roblox underworld, I do wonder if Roblox Corporation understands the responsibility that comes when your player base is composed of innocents.
"On a purely emotional level I feel extraordinarily disturbed that the largest producer of children's entertainment in the world today has such a financial backbone," says Smith. "For some reason, I keep going back to thinking about Sesame Street. When Sesame Street was created, it was, in part, to sell children on concepts like the alphabet. There have been at least periods in human history where the people who were making the most expensive and forward-thinking children's entertainment were doing it for the betterment of children."
- Luke Winkie
Feb 14, 2022 · A new Vice report digs deeper into how it all happens: How "beamers," as they're called in the Roblox community, are able to hack into Roblox accounts, strip them of valuable items, and...
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