{"id":12491,"date":"2026-04-30T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/smashing-security-podcast-465-this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:03:29","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-465-this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/smashing-security-podcast-465-this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of organisations. All for some free in-game currency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there&#8217;s a 1980s phone protocol called SS7 that lets shadowy surveillance companies track anyone, anywhere, via their mobile phone. Governments know about it. Telecoms know about it. Nobody&#8217;s fixing it.<\/p>\n<p>All this and more in episode 465 of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast with cybersecurity keynote speaker and industry veteran  Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest James Ball.<\/p>\n<p>Plus! Don&#8217;t miss our featured interview with Rob Edmondson of CoreView, discussing how to lock down Microsoft 365 before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamcluley.com\/smashing-security-podcast-465\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,156,154,54,1466,275,166,83,2447,2448,85],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-location-tracking","category-mobile","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-roblox","category-ss7","category-surveillance","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}