2012 April Fools Incident









On April 1st, 2012, hackers breached multiple administrator accounts and caused what would be the ROBLOX website's most destructive attack in history. Originally a fallout of a forum argument, the hack involved the currency system and item catalog, the use of the warning banner, and unauthorized user promotions.

Quoted by many as a day that would go down in history, the precursor to the hack was a forum discussion that arose into an argument between Minish and Merely, who were arguing about money[Needs details]. 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.

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 latter 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 " " and " "

After some time, Pheedy and are17 had found their way into the administration. 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 R$1. People soon lost control of their accounts.

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

Soon after, they have made a lot of banners scattered around the website, examples being " ", " " and " ". They also added a warning banner saying " "

The hackers released a new face into the catalog with the title. 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 hackers also hacked one of the most famous places. One of them are named Welcome to ROBLOX Building. The hackers hacked the statue, in that time, those servers have been shut down. When the servers have shutted down, those players have been banned.

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 hack applied by the 2 users, and once the entire system was restored to its previous form, the hackers were permanently banned, and the face pulled from the store.

When the site was closed, it says, "The site is currently offline for maintenance and upgrades. Please check back soon!

When the site was now back, the hats' names were back to normal, and the banners were removed at the website. The hackers were now banned at the website, and the ROBLOX have now been safe at that day. In that time, players have thought Hung999 was a team from the hack[Needs details].