2022 Crosswoods Incident



The Roblox Crosswoods incident was a Roblox hacking incident that occurred on July 16, 2022 and ended on July 19-20 of that same year. The incident took place at a game called CrossWoods [A.2] (also known as Crosswoods) that banned people's accounts upon joining the game and staying in the game for a while, with one of the first known victims of the incident being clarkt1000.

Background
All that's known about the game's pre-release is that the owner of the game claimed that the game would be innocent, which was later proven to be very false. When the player joined the game, they were greeted with a "loading" screen, and during that time, the game would trick the moderation system by having the game itself automatically report the player for saying very inappropriate things that they never said. When the game was still on the loading screen, the game would've interrupted itself and never finished "loading", and instead it greeted the player to a shaking red background while weird music would play, and the player would be kicked out of the game shortly afterwards. The bans often resulted in a permanent ban, but some users did get lucky and only got 1-7 day bans. Two days after the game's release, Kohl'd Admin Infinite was also hacked, and when a player joined a game with the hacked version of Kohl's Admin Infinite used in it, the player would be teleported to the game instead.

The Incident
During July 16th of 2022, a group of Roblox hackers made a game called CrossWoods [A.2], which was owned by a Roblox user by the name of ClientERR0R. The game went unnoticed until the next day, where a male Twitch streamer and Roblox user named clarkt1000 was requested to play the game by one of his viewers. Upon joining the game, everything seemed normal until he got kicked out of the game after viewing a red shaking background. At first, he figured that it was just a prank, until he left the game, where he was greeted with an account termination note. More popular Roblox YouTubers started to notice the video by Clark, and started making news talking about how CrossWoods [A.2] terminated Roblox players off of Roblox. Two days later, the same hackers managed to hack Kohl's Admin Infinite, which is a Roblox admin plugin, causing even more players to come to their game and to get terminated. This caused even more news to occur, with most of the newer news being about not joining any Roblox game with Kohl's Admin Infinite.

Aftermath
Roblox eventually took down the game and terminated the owner's account, but by then, 456 or possibly less Roblox accounts were already falsely terminated, however, Roblox did unban the users that were falsely banned by the game. Roblox was criticized for taking a while to do something about the game and its owner, and was also criticized for allowing this to happen in the first place, since that according to a popular Roblox user named CloneTrooper1019, the kind of exploit that the game had used to terminate players who joined it was usable ever since 2016. As for the incident itself, Roblox users often compare it to the 2012 April Fools incident due to how dangerous it was, and is often looked at as one of Roblox's biggest/worst hacking incidents ever. However, the creator of Crosswoods proceeded to make two more Roblox games that also falsely terminate players.

Videos
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Trivia

 * Some people mistake clarkt1000 for being the first victim of this incident, however, if he was, then he wouldn't have been told to join the game by someone else.
 * The people who caused the incident also had a Discord server, and in one of the channels, it'd list the players who were terminated by playing their game.
 * Many people thought that over 10,000 users were affected by the incident, but according to the amount of visitors that Crosswoods had received, the game only had 456 visits, meaning that only 456 players or less were affected.
 * As stated earlier, the Crosswoods incident is considered to be one of the biggest/worst hacking incidents Roblox has ever experienced, and is often compared to the 2012 April Fools incident.
 * Before the owner of Crosswoods released the game, 4 days earlier, a different game of his was released which had the same script as its successor, but it didn't hide the chat and the player list, unlike Crosswoods.