The 2012 ”Hack” Incident

On April 1, 2012, a major incident on Roblox caused many things of the site to be changed, including banners, catalog items, and user accounts. Users affected by the incident reported that their accounts could no longer be used until after the incident.

By the morning of April 1, 2012, a user named DracoSwordMaster had gotten access to the administrator only features of the site and had caused the now infamous event, changing elements of the site to their bidding. By the end of April 1, 2012, administrators had gained access back to the site and restored most of the damages caused by Draco.

Banners – Topic

Banners were added to the top of the site and frequently changed colors and displayed questionable content. Examples include (but were not limited to):

• “thank you minish for messing up the economy. nub.”,
• “always share your passwords with strangers, kids!“
• “Haha these are so funny let’s go spam the forums about them 😀“
• “Remember kids tell your parents to vote Ron Paul”
• “Yo gonna give a shout out to the homies in dah hood“
• “Abcedfghikjlmnoqprstuvwzyx”
• “OMG like srsly Becky?”,”JOIN BUILDERS CLUB! ITS FREEEEEEEE!!!!”
• “Yo RT stop yo ranting homies”
• “Playing Roblox is better than going outside!”
• “pink. Its my new obsession,pink. it not even aquestion.”
• “I’m the annoying orange banner. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. “
• “NO TOMATO IS ALWAYS BEST SILLY ORANGE”
• “minish is a stupid noob. nah not rly.”
• “Do a Barrell Roll”
• “jaredvaldez4 best builder on roblox kthxbai
• “minish is climbin in yo windows. snatchin yo people up.”

Multiple users were gave large amounts of Robux throughout the event. Although most of these accounts were apparently came back, it is found that some users managed to get banned losing all of their new wealth.

Pretty weird, huh?