SENSITIVE data including personal addresses has been lost in a major security breach for Roblox – as hacking fears rise.
Nearly 4,000 names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and addresses have been lost in the gaming platform’s leak fiasco.
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Roblox is an online gaming platform and game creation system which is especially popular among children and teenagers.
Now, a security breach which dates back nearly three years has hit its devoted community.
According to PC Gamer, the breach contains personal information from people who attended the Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020.
In a bizarre twist, the spilled information even includes attendees’ T-shirt sizes.
Internet security specialist Troy Hunt first revealed news of the leak on July 18th on Twitter – and said the original breach dated all the way back to December 2020.
But it is feared information relating to the 3,943 compromised accounts on the global game playing platform could be used for malicious purposes.
The leak could theoretically lead to phishing attempts, spam, instances of identity theft, and other bad faith activities.
Those worried they may have been affected are advised to check their security risk on internet safety site Have I been Pwned.
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Roblox has emailed those affected and, according to Hunt, offered a year of identity protection for anyone seriously impacted by the breach.
A spokesman said: “Roblox is aware of a third-party security issue where there were indications of unauthorised access to limited personal information of a subset of our creator community.
“We engaged independent experts to support the investigation led by our information security team.
“Those who are impacted will receive an email communicating the next steps we are taking to support them.
“We will continue to be vigilant in monitoring and vetting the cyber security posture of Roblox and our third-party vendors.”
It comes after tens of thousands of users reported issues with accessing their game services.
Reports came flooding in yesterday of access difficulties in the US – with hundreds of users in the UK also experiencing issues.
As of 11pm, over 16,000 users in the states had reported issues with the game, according to Downdetector.
