Roblox 2023 Data Breach

Roblox Developer Conference Attendee Data Exposure (2020): 4K Attendee Records Including Home Address & Phone Exposed

Platform · Online gaming and user-generated content · Game creation and social platform · Global

Roblox Developer Conference Attendee Data Exposure (2020): 4K Attendee Records Including Home Address & Phone Exposed

Online gaming and creation platform.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Limited DisclosureThis breach involves data relating to children. We do not confirm the presence of any individual publicly or to third parties. A parent or guardian can check exposure privately below.
Breach Risk Index i
44/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Restricted
Being associated with this breach can itself be harmful. Disclosure is limited and presence is not confirmed to unverified parties.
4KRecords
2023Year

The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.

Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Classification Tags
GamingVideo Games2023

Breach Summary

In July 2023, a list of attendees from the 2017-2020 Roblox Developer Conferences (data dating to a December 2020 leak) was circulated on a forum, exposing about 3,943 records. Data included names, email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, phone numbers, physical and IP addresses, and T-shirt sizes.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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4K records analyzed

About Roblox

This record concerns attendees of the Roblox Developer Conferences (2017-2020), not Roblox player accounts.

Why They Hold Your Data

User-generated gaming platforms collect player identity, usernames, messages, friend relationships, device data, payment-adjacent records, and creation activity across large social gaming ecosystems.

Data Points Exposed

8 verified field types
Clothing Sizes
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Phone Number
Physical address High
Username

Breach Impact

The pairing of home addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth for identifiable developers supports doxxing and targeted phishing.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.

What You Should Do

  1. Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
  2. Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
  3. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

Protect Yourself

Protect Yourself: Limited Disclosure

Check Exposure: Verification Required

Because this breach involves data about minors, we do not confirm whether any individual appears in it to unverified parties. A verified parent, guardian, or the individual can privately check exposure.

We confirm exposure only to the affected individual or their verified parent or guardian.

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