2012 April Fools Incident

RThe April Fools Hack 2012 was an event that took place on April 1, 2012 that involved the ROBLOX website.

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On April 1, 2012, a user named DracoSwordMaster was given access to the admin panel by former forum moderator Leeav and caused what would be the ROBLOX website's most devastating attack to date. Originally a fallout of a forum argument, it involved the currency system and item catalog, the use of the warning banner, and unauthorized user promotions.

The precursor to the event was a forum discussion that arose into an argument between Minish and Merely, who were arguing about money and the economy of ROBLOX[More details needed]. Minish bought Merely's famous Domino Crown afterwards, which was (at the time) Merely's personal favorite. The forums exploded in minutes, thread-wise and, as a result, the two were each given bans. This would also lead to Merely temporarily quitting ROBLOX.

Soon after, users Pheedy and are17 became moderators, and used their elevated powers to unban Minish.. The prices of hats in the catalog went down tremendously, and players on the site were stuck in two possible situations; one being undeservedly earning ROBUX spontaneously, and the later having their ROBUX lost. The warning banner for the top of the site would flutter in chaos, changing colors and bestowing objectionable content, examples being "thank you minish for messing up the economy. nub." and "always share your passwords with strangers, kids!"

After some time, Pheedy and are17 had received access to the admin panel. They began to imprint obscene content on the forums. Hats would be released by the minute, often with only two in stock for the price of. People soon lost control of their accounts.

Some of the names of the hats were changed, examples such as, Explosive Hair being changed to Rocket Hair, Hooded Spacelord was changed to Noob Hood, and Mementero Mori to Candle Skull.

Soon after, they used banners displayed across the site to write messages, examples being "Haha these are so funny lets go spam the forums about them :D", "Remember kids tell your parents to vote Ron Paul" and "Yo gonna give a shout out to the homies in dah hood". They also added a warning banner saying "im the annoying orange banner. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

DracoSwordMaster released a new face into the catalog with the title "c:" on the official ROBLOX account. The face was considered to be crudely drawn, and the only account to purchase it was stickmasterluke, who had been hacked at the time.

The face's image file can still be found. It was not removed and the ID of the face was 76382978. They have the same description and the image's ID has 1 less number, similar to the creation of decals.

It should also be noted that during this time 1dev2's account was one of the many that were hacked. Many items were put into his inventory and during the event his avatar was changed and his account was banned by a moderator for disrupting the economy. This ban was never revoked, but 1dev2 was apparently allowed to temporarily access his account sometime after, which during that time, he uncopylocked his game "Welcome to the Town in Robloxia".

After all this activity had occurred, ROBLOX staff brought the site offline, reporting they were still attempting to patch up the currency system. Administrators John Shedletsky and Matt Dusek had discovered a way to regress the everything that happened, and once the entire system was restored to its previous form, all the accounts that were tampered with were permanently banned, including DracoSwordMaster, and the "c:" face was pulled from the catalog.

While the site was shut down, it said, "The site is currently offline for maintenance and upgrades. Please check back soon!" When the site was opened again, all of the hats' names were back to normal, and the banners were removed. During that time, players circulated a rumor that Hung999 was a perpetrator although no evidence of this was later found. After this time, user 728x728 remained having admin panel access until April 2nd, 2012, however, he was later banned and removed from the admin panel. However, in summer of 2013, he was mysteriously unbanned.