
“Expect it to ramp up after a deal is signed, possibly even by partner.” The slide dates from before Roblox ultimately announced a partnership with Tencent. "The Roblox InfoSec team, in particular, actively mines various sources for threat intelligence, monitoring for malicious activity and taking appropriate action."Ĭlearly, it's not enough: The digital frontier is a risky place for everyone, but it's not reasonable to expect children to effectively navigate those risks unaided and unprotected, especially when the amounts of money involved are bound to continue to attract predators.“Expect that hacking has already started,” one slide in a presentation from 2017, called “China MVP Ideas from Aug Trip CONFIDENTAL,” read. "“We’ve spent over a decade building a stringent safety and security system and policies that we are proud of and that we are continuously evolving as our community grows," the rep said. It also "aggressively deters moving activity off Roblox because we cannot control activity on other applications," a rep told Vice, and offers 2FA and other features to help protect accounts. Roblox does offer a "rollback" option for item trades, but it's limited to one per account. "Although we try our best to filter out these items, it's very difficult to detect/filter these items." "As we are a public and easily accessible marketplace to sell on, it's surely possible that these ‘beamers’ attempt to sell items on Adurite as they would try to on any other sort of marketplace," they said. YR acknowledged that the sale of stolen items through unofficial markets is a problem, but said that-much like Roblox itself-there's not much they can do to stop it.
