2012 April Fools Hack

The 2012 April Fools Hack was a major event that occurred on April 1, 2012. It is one of the most disruptive hacking events in the history of Roblox, that

because the platform was in its early years, its security was not It was the best and allowed this incident, which caused a lot of controversy in the community.

Incident
The incident is believed to have started when user Ellernate gained access to the Roblox admin panel by creating an account on SiteTest3 using the Roblox username of a Roblox administrator.

Ellernate is blamed for being responsible for the most historic hack of the platform on April 1, 2012. Ellernate gained access by logging into an administrator account on SiteTest3. The use of the .ROBLOSECURITY cookie, the use of the warning banner and the promotions of unauthorized users are all examples of ROBLOSECURITY cookies. Roblox, a former Reddit moderator, stated in a 2017 Reddit comment that "It was nothing ... You won't see it happen again."

Hacking and promoting accounts
An alleged precursor to the incident was a discussion on the forum that turned into a discussion between Minish and Merely about money and the Roblox economy. Caleb244 supposedly took over Minish's account, and Minish bought Merely's famous Domino Crown, which was Merely's favorite avatar store item and one of the most popular of the time. The forums quickly became flooded with threads discussing and discussing the events. As a result, both users were banned. This would also result in simply leaving Roblox briefly.

Soon after, the Ellernate-controlled accounts Pheedy and are17 were promoted to moderators and used their newfound authority to unseat Minish. During this time, the prices of hats in the avatar shop dropped dramatically, and the hats were thrown for a minute at 1 robux. Some hat names were changed, such as Explosive Hair was renamed "Rocket Hair", Hooded Spacelord was renamed "Noob Hood" and Memento Mori was renamed "Candle Skull". User iTrapped, or Isaac, the creator of Brick Planet, are guilty of this.

The 1dev2 account is believed to have been one of the compromised accounts. During the event, many items were added to his inventory and his avatar was changed several times, which led to suspicions from people and moderators. This led to a moderator subsequently deleting his account. This ban was never lifted, but 1dev2 may have been granted temporary access to their account after the event, during which time they uncopylocked their famous game "Welcome to the Town of Robloxia."

Assets
During this time, the perpetrator released multiple Roblox assets on the official Roblox account. They first released a new custom face with the title "c:" in the avatar store for 100 Robux. The Stickmasterluke account was the only account that bought it which also received suspicions mainly from users, and anyone else who tried to buy it received an error message. The face image asset can be retrieved on the Roblox website. Another "c:" face was created and can also be retrieved on the website. A third face, "hai guize derp" (also custom face) was also released and can also be accessed on the Roblox website.

Other accounts affected during this incident include:


 * Qman1245 obtaining the Dominus Empyreus, Domino Crown, Ban Hammer and the Admin Badge. His account was later canceled.
 * Rippinz obtained several items released during the incident, including two copies of Scary Hood.
 * Misteroe traded and laundered an estimated 100,000 to 350,000 Robux. It is also speculated that the player Misteroe was directly involved in the event.
 * ExFamous obtained Dominus Frigidus # 16 and # 59 Ghostwalker, which were worth approximately eight million Robux at the time.
 * Mattmlm11 received the Sinister Fedora along with other items, but they were later removed from his inventory.
 * ScorpioPilot was also compromised and banned for 6 years.
 * ReeseMcBlox was one of the users hacked during the incident, as shown in a forum post. When she was hacked, hackers wrote extremely inappropriate comments using her account, and it was reported that she was unable to access her account until the event ended.

Hats
Several items from the Avatar Store, mainly hats that were never planned to be released to stores across the country, were renamed during this update. These hats were quickly withdrawn from sale after The Government of Roblox took over. These included:


 * Crazy skull
 * Toxic nemisis
 * SteamPunk Elephant
 * Dinosaur bandit
 * Ice law

Banners
Ellernate added banners to the top of the platform, which changed color frequently and displayed questionable content. In chronological order (according to the Robloxian National Justice Fiscal Department), all the banners are below:


 * "Hi, We are having issue's with our publishing system. Hang tight yo!"
 * "Bro chill we get it"
 * "Yo dog ya'll need to chill it"
 * "Do A Barrel Roll"
 * "thank you minish for messing up the economy. nub."
 * "These aren't the droids you're looking for!"
 * "Go out and buy some peanut butter yo"
 * "You put the peanut butter in the potato and stir it all up"
 * "jaredvaldez4 best builder on roblox kthxbai"
 * "WHO IS IT 1x1x1x1, Dignity, Minish, Jared, The Admins? The World May Never know: o"
 * "minish is climbin in yo windows. snatchin yo people up."
 * "WII GUNNA FIN WII GUNNA FIN U"
 * "Oh you lik these headers? Tell me how you've always been such a fan"
 * "OMG lik srsly becky?"
 * "JOIN BUILDERS CLUB! ITS FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!"
 * "Minish, I need you boo. I gotta see you boo. But yea this isn't Minish."
 * "I RT stop me ranting homies"
 * "Haha these are so funny lets go spam the forums about them: D"
 * "is anybody here besides minish a huge chris brown fan ??"
 * "Remember kids tell your parents to vote for Ron Paul"
 * "Playing roblox is always better then going outside!"
 * "I'm gonna give a shout out to the homies in dah hood"
 * "pink. it's my new obsession. pink. it not even a question."
 * "Abcedfghikjlmnoqprstuvwzyx"
 * "I'm the annoying orange banner. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA"
 * "NO TOMATO IS ALWAYS BEST SILLY ORANGE"
 * "minish is a stupid noob. nah not rly"
 * "remember kids trust anyone with your password"
 * "APRIL FEWLS"
 * "Ten bux says we do roll back on today"
 * "hai itz pheedy mcnoobster and minish and we taken over"
 * "McNoobster in dah houze"
 * "McNoobster !!!!!!"

The Roblox Government Response
After the whole incident happened, the Roblox Government disconnected the platform and reported that they were trying to fix the monetary system. The website came back online overnight that day. The admin panel for the site test was updated and improved and the Roblox avatar store was offline until the next night.

In a Roblox blog post on April 2, 2012, it was announced that "Roblox experienced an issue on the site on the night of April 1 ... and they took the site offline." They noted that "several assets were released from the avatar shop order book that were not ready for production", and "several accounts incorrectly received large amounts of Robux; some of these Robux were subsequently exchanged with other accounts." Some avatar store items and currency transactions were audited and reversed, and they estimated that pullbacks occurred in less than 0.01% of Robloxians. Some items were updated with new prices, while other items were withdrawn from sale. Item "c:" has been changed to Dr. Smyth Face and is temporarily available for purchase.