San Francisco: A hacker allegedly bribed an employee at the popular online video game 'Roblox' to gain access to the back-end customer support panel with personal information on over 100 million active monthly users.
- The hacker was able to access to see other users' email addresses, change their passwords, remove two-factor authentication from their accounts, ban users and more, reports the Vice.
- The hacker shared screenshots of the personal information of some of Roblox's most high-profile users including YouTuber Linkmon99.
- According to the hacker, he changed the password for two accounts and sold their items.
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- Based on the screenshots of the customer support panel, the hacker was also able to reset passwords and change other user data as well.
- Meanwhile, Roblox has addressed the issue and individually notified the "small number of users who were impacted".
- The company has reported the hacker's actions to the bug bounty platform HackerOne as an additional measure.
- Roblox is available across PC and Xbox platforms, and is especially popular with young gamers.