Roblox suffered a major data leak, and the privacy of nearly 4, 000 developers was made public

CTOnews.com July 21 news, PC Gamer reported that the large online gaming platform Roblox (Roblox) recently suffered a major data breach, about 4000 developers personal privacy information was made public, including 2017-2020 participated in Roblox developer conference developers information, including their names, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates and physical addresses.

Roblox spokesperson said via email: "Roblox is aware of third-party security issues and there are indications that some visitors have unauthorized access to limited personal information of members of our creator community. We hired independent experts to support the investigation led by our information security team. Affected developers will receive an email informing them of the follow-up steps we are taking to support them. We will continue to be vigilant in monitoring and reviewing the cybersecurity posture of Roblox and our third-party vendors. "

The report pointed out that the information was originally leaked on December 18,2020 and was not exposed until July 18,2023, with a total of 3943 accounts leaked. In addition to the above information, the leaked information even included everyone's T-shirt size.

A source who declined to be named said the leak had been exposed in Roblox's niche community as early as 2021, but Roblox did not publicly disclose the incident or alert anyone affected until a few days ago when the leak appeared on a public forum.

CTOnews.com previously reported that Roblox's revenue in the first quarter of this year was $655 million (CTOnews.com notes: currently about 4.696 billion yuan), up 22% year-on-year. In addition, Roblox's average daily active users (DAU) in the first quarter was 66.1 million, up 22% year-on-year.