You can't make this up. Pro-Trump supporters have allegedly been hacking into accounts over the past week or so. Messages prompting players to vote for Donald Trump this year have supposedly been added to user accounts, and MAGA hats have apparently been placed on their ꦅavatars unwillingly.
Tweets have been going out from Roblox players that show screenshots of what have been added to their account. A statement is supposedly added, saying “Ask your paren🗹ts to vote for Trump this year! #MAGA2020." An outfit that only the most dedicated Trump supporter would be proud of wearing is also apparently equipped to unsuspecting users.
and ൲reported that over 1700 pr🔴ofiles have experienced this messaging.
Roblox is a hugely popular gaming platform for children and teenagers with around 90 million users logging in every month, as of April 2020 (via ). The hook is that there is a community of creators making content for the platform, like Media Molecule's Dreams, but to a lesser creative degree. It also has a social element like PlayStation Home or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Club Penguin. Mix them all together, and you have Roblox.
This hacking of accounts is a desperate attempt to get votes for Trump, and it's pretty gross. Children can be impressionable and without the proper context of politics and recent events, it's wrong to attempt to manipulate them. T🍒his isn't the first time that hacking and Trump have supp☂osedly come hand-in-hand, so we shouldn't really be surprised by his fans' actions here...
A 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hacker also bribed a Roblox employee back in May to prove a point to the company by showing they could access an account's two-factor authentication and in-game currency. They also changed the password of the richest Roblox player – Linkmon99 – and sold items. These issues have since been fixed by Roblox, but when you have a game that haꦬs a lot of children's information, it really should have more encryption.
Let's hope there's less hacking stories like this as the election battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden (and Kanye?) rages throug💦hout 2020.
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