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Roblox[*] blames 'gang rape' on hacker adding code to game
A popular children's video game has blamed a virtual "gang rape" on a hack of its systems. Amber Petersen's seven-year-old daughter was playing Roblox, when [her online avatar] was attacked by two male characters staging violent sexual acts.
The firm said the incident was caused by an attack on one of its computer servers that has been dealt with. But experts have cautioned parents not to let young children play online without supervision. They warn it is unlikely this will be the last time such a hack occurs.
After Ms Petersen witnessed the attack on her family iPad, she posted screenshots and an account of the event on her Facebook page, detailing the experience. Ms Petersen said that when her daughter had asked what was happening on the screen, she had viewed a "horrific" scene of her child's avatar being sexually assaulted by two male characters. Towards the end of the incident, she said, a third, female character interfered by jumping on the victim's body.
The BBC understands that the hacker responsible managed to subvert the California-based company's cyber-protection systems, allowing them to upload code that changed the game's rules and made customised animations appear. Roblox previously confirmed that it had identified the account responsible and blocked it from its platform.
[*] From the company web site, Roblox:
Roblox is the best place to Imagine with Friends. With the largest user-generated online gaming platform, and over 15 million games created by users, Roblox is the #1 gaming site for kids and teens (comScore). Every day, virtual explorers come to Roblox to create adventures, play games, role play, and learn with their friends in a family-friendly, immersive, 3D environment.
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Original Facebook post. Also at TechCrunch and The Washington Post.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Alfred on Friday July 20 2018, @03:57PM (7 children)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)
Oh please. The church has historically been one of the worst offenders of humanity and committed many atrocities.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @10:02PM
But they've done more good than bad, so on balance the church is better than, say, an Islamic Jihadi mosque.
(Score: 5, Touché) by isostatic on Friday July 20 2018, @05:00PM (3 children)
Raping 7 year olds is the area the church has a lot of experience with
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @05:26PM
That's why we should put them back in charge. Virtual gang rape? Hah, amateurs.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @10:05PM
Fake News! In 9 out of 10 cases, the children were found to have been acting provocatively.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday July 23 2018, @01:45PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday July 20 2018, @08:59PM
If you want to talk about the school system, it started there when parents were given more power than the school.
Schools have no play equipment on the yard because of stupid parents.
Disruptive kids who get expelled are reinstated because of stupid parents.
Dang... to me, teachers should be striking for control of the classroom again so the kids who are there to learn can actually learn instead of leaving that one disruptive kid in the class who STARTS THROWING CHAIRS AND DESKS AROUND and the class has to be vacated. How can a kid learn when ONE KID is allowed to disrupt the class AND NOTHING CAN BE DONE.
No... that one kid is expelled and is the parents problem until the problem is rectified.
No child left behind.... no, it should be bad kids get spanked behinds.
Dang.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---