“There’s a whole community where people beam, steal limiteds and sell them for USD or cryptocurrency,” Asil told Motherboard in an online chat. It was his stolen item, now being sold on the Roblox underground.Īsil, it turned out, had been “beamed”-Roblox slang for getting hacked and your items stolen. The item this person was selling had the exact same serial number as Asil’s: #918. Asil said a friend originally gave it to them, and added he originally shared the account with a friend before they gave him full control of it.Ī day later, a friend of Asil’s found someone selling that same rare face item for Bitcoin in a Discord channel where users peddled Roblox items. Limited items in Roblox come with unique serial numbers, adding to their prestige.
The hacker targeting Asil stole a rare skin that makes their Roblox avatar look like it’s licking its lips, as well as some Robux, Roblox’s currency. Roblox is available across PC and Xbox platforms, and is especially popular with young gamers.Each Roblox account has an individual character they can earn or buy new clothes for, and which they then use inside Roblox’s virtual worlds. The company has reported the hacker’s actions to the bug bounty platform HackerOne as an additional measure.
Meanwhile, Roblox has addressed the issue and individually notified the “small number of users who were impacted”. The hacker shared screenshots of the personal information of some of Roblox’s most high-profile users including YouTuber Linkmon99.Īccording to the hacker, he changed the password for two accounts and sold their items.īased on the screenshots of the customer support panel, the hacker was also able to reset passwords and change other user data as well. The hacker was able to access to see other users’ email addresses, change their passwords, remove two-factor authentication from their accounts, ban users and more, reports the Vice. A hacker allegedly bribed an employee at the popular online video game ‘Roblox’ to gain access to the back-end customer support panel with personal information on over 100 million active monthly users.
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