Popular Roblox RPG Blox Fruits experienced a server-wide hack on Monday, January 9, 2023, which caused over 400,000 players to receive custom screen pop-ups, jump scares, text alerts, and more. Though this hack is no longer present inside the experience at the time of this article's publication, many players continue to voice their concerns about the safety of Blox Fruits and its servers. When the exploits were active, it was stated multiple times that ex-Roblox admin Luckymaxer was the culprit of the hack, though this has yet to be confirmed.
During the hacking event, administrator messages appeared on the screen at random and featured a variety of contexts in multiple languages, indicating from the very beginning that they were not official messages. These messages directly mentioned the Blox Fruits developers by name, and called them out for being problematic, lazy, and not who they say they are, stating that "a dark past surrounds each one of them." In a Discord channel promoted during the hack, an evidence board-like image was uploaded that featured a variety of screenshots, seemingly attempting to incriminate or "expose" the Blox Fruits developers.
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These messages also made sure to credit Luckymaxer as the one behind the hack, stating that the reason for the takeover was related to his expiration as a Roblox Admin in 2017. Before Luckymaxer was, presumably, let go from Roblox, he served as a data miner of sorts for the company, checking to see how Roblox as a front-facing platform could improve by "hacking" certain parts of the website and attempting to change it for the better. During the 2017 Egg Hunt event, however, Lucky took his hacking abilities too far for Roblox's liking, and was, assumably, removed from his position after moderators were tipped that he had added the ability to place scripts (exploits) inside the infamous Bunny Ears 2017 avatar accessory.
Though there's been no confirmation from either side since these events took place in 2017, the January 2023 hack has led many players to assume that Lucky believes the Blox Fruits developers were the ones who tipped the Egg Hunt moderators, and Roblox, about his exploits. The exact quote that mentions this connection is as follows: "WHY DID YOU MAKE MY BUNNY EARS ERROR BACK IN 2017 AND EXPOSE ME ON PURPOSE? NOW I HAD TO TURN TO MY GOOD FRIEND G00BY, THE FAMOUS FE BYPASSER, TO HELP ME SINCE YOU WOULD NOT."
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In this quote, Lucky mentions the alleged famous hacker g00byd0lan (g00by), who is known for being able to bypass FE (Filtering Enabled) features in Roblox experiences. When an experience has FE enabled, changes or edits made to the code by hackers will not show up in the server for all players, and will instead be filtered out and removed. FE isn't completely foolproof, however, as hackers like g00by have developed ways to exploit around FE blocks and cause the damage that happened to Blox Fruits regardless of the implemented filter.
Because g00by presents himself online as an insouciant, unapologetic, dark humor-centered content creator/person, some community members, such as popular Roblox YouTuber Sharkblox, believe that the hack could be one elaborate "prank" or scheme from g00by, and that Lucky isn't actually involved at all. Despite all of the rumors, however, no official information has been released from Lucky, g00by, or any of the Blox Fruits developers at the time of this article's publication.
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Published: Jan 10, 2023 03:09 pm