The April Fools Hack of 2012

It all happened on April 1st, 2012. A user by the name of DracoSwordMaster gained access to the admin panel by a former forum moderator, Leeav, who considered himself the person to blame, for this horrendous attack. (The April Fools Hack of 2012.) During the attack, the currency system, the catalog, the warning banner (the one used for announcing Twitch streams and such), and users were messed with. (There were some unauthorized promotions.) But, how did this all start, you ask? Well that's what we're getting into right now.

It all started with an argument, on the ROBLOX forums. Minish (who was actually DracoSwordMaster, controlling the Minish account), was arguing with Merely about the ROBLOX economy. DracoSwordMaster, using the Minish account, bought Merely's Domino Crown, which upset him quite a bit, and made the forums filled with threads on what was happening in a matter of seconds. Minish and Merely were both given bans, which lead Merely to temporarily quit ROBLOX. After all of this happened, DracoSwordMaster used the accounts Pheedy and are17, that became moderators, to unban Minish. Then, the real mess begun. The prices of items started going down, the warning banner in the top of the ROBLOX website kept changing colors and what was written on it. Several things were stated on those banners, such as , "thank you Minish for messing up the economy nub" and , "always share your password with strangers, kids!". After quite a bit of messing around, the accounts Pheedy and are17 got access to the admin panel. They put inappropriate sayings on the forums, released hats by the minute with only 2 in stock for the price of 1 Robux. But the worst was yet to come? People soon started losing control of their accounts.

As if this was not enough, the names of items started changing too! Stuff like , "Hooded Spacelord" changed to , "Noob Hood" and much more was messed with! After all this was pulled off, banners started displaying all across the website. Some of them said , "Yo gonna give a shout out to the homies in dah hood" or , "Haha these are so funny lets go spam the forums about them :D". But, things did not stop there. DracoSwordMaster, used the official ROBLOX account to upload a face by the name of "c:" and is still visible on the catalog to this day with the ID of 76382978, it is not for sale as it is a creepy face that could scare children a bit. The only account that purchased it was StickMasterLuke, as he was hacked at the time. Another face by the name of "hai guize derp" was also uploaded, and like the "c:" face, it was never removed and the ID for it is 76385103.

It was also during this event that 1dev2, the creator of , "Welcome to the Town Of Robloxia" , was banned due to a huge misunderstanding. He was also hacked, and many items were put into his inventory which lead a moderator to terminate his account for disrupting the economy. This ban was never able to be revoked but 1dev2 soon came back with the account 1dev3, which is still up and running to this day. After all thus conflict and chaos, the ROBLOX staff brought the website offline to fix everything that had been done. All the accounts that started this attack were terminated, including DracoSwordMaster. The site was shut down and when it came back, everything was back to normal. And so, the attack ends.

To finish this book off, it was announced by a member of the ROBLOX staff that this hack was NOT an April Fools joke, as a lot of harm was done to players. This was definitely one of the biggest attacks ROBLOX has suffered and it should be taken seriously. Nowadays, the chances of something like this happening are slim, as the site is much more secure. This was The April Fools Hack of 2012.

Authors Note:
Thanks for reading! If you want more stories on the history of ROBLOX, let me know! There will be a new story tomorrow: The Day Tickets Were Removed (9/26/16)