The Biggest Hacking Scandal in Geometry Dash
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2020
- big thanks to Jhown for making this thumbnail very quickly for me, as i found out i am literally terrible at making them. i also forgot to list Technical in the credits as he was shown in here, so i hope that clears that up
here is the next hardest video ive ever had the edit, this one was tough to finish up, as there is so little documentation regarding this hacker attack. the figure heads of Team Hax and other sources allowed me to put together a fairly, well-composed explanation for what was going on during this time. a ton of researching efforts went into this, as well as a pretty big surprise you will have noticed by the time you read this description
i got 2 videos left for this year that i want to finish, one of which is just as grand in scale as this video is, potentially even bigger. im going out strong ;) 
Игры
just to give a heads-up, yes i am aware of the low sound issue and i cant do much about it now unfortunately. first time i ever made a video like this with voice-over, so the audio balance kind of glossed over my head. i recommend watching at highest volume setting if you have trouble hearing
ok
ok
Might I suggest closed captions in the future?
I just used a volume booster
why not do text just like you did in your The Most Mysterious Extreme Demon In Geometry Dash.
I like how this is an actual HACKING scandal, and not cheating (noctafly noobas etc)
ikr? the GD community confuses simple programs that change game memory with actual hacks.
and stormfly too lol
@@Sharpless2 people call everthing hacking. ROBLOX cunts even say that they got hacked even tho, in reality they got their account stolen by a scammer. It's just so stupid seing someone call a simple scam a hack. Peace
@@brutpenta i completely fuckin agree!
The definition of hacking according to Marriam-Webster is "to gain illegal access to (a computer network, system, etc.)"
This means that stealing passwords on ROBLOX is gaining access to an account without authorization, and is therefore hacking. Also, modifying memory, like with MegaHack v5 or v6, is also hacking as RobTop has not provided authorization for the modifications made by the program.
I just watched a bit and it feels like the video is like a horror story with this music in the background lol
hi
@@VibreX hi
Hi legry
HOW TF CAN EVERYONE FIND ME
@@ladethas HOW TF ARE YOU EVERYWHERE
Almost 3 years huh.
I wish robtop wasn't so full of himself and actually accepted the offer of teamhax to improve the security. Maybe there wouldn't be so many issues with the servers and accounts.
Be aware because i'm sure 2.2 release will spark more exploits of similar scale at some point.
There is something thing that I would love tell everyone in the gd community.
Use random generated password for geometry dash. Store your data offline. Don't trust robtop's servers if it comes to save system.
Also feel free to blame me for gathering people together who knew how to create tools for gd. Idea was to give community fast access to tools such as object limit bypass, copy hack etc.
same
g
can't wait for 2.2
Its ok dude, we both know roptop will never listen to anyone
Don't blame yourself Zimnior you had no malicious intent here. You just wanted give the community some useful tools that Robtop wasn't too keen on.
I was shocked to see RobTop say "f**king" on the forums. It was like hearing santa say a nono-word.
I'm sorry, where does the video show robtop swearing? I might have missed it, I didn't expect this to happen either😅
literally-
@@untipoacaso5384 Oh I just remember him saying it. At the time I was very active on the forums and I once saw him get into some beef with mghosti (a hacker who developed a bunch of tools and exploits). He was being kind of a douche anyways so yeah...
@@MegoZ_ don't worry about it ahah, yeah I heard of MgostIH, he's from the same country as me
i like how robtop is santa :)
so excited to watch this lets go!!!!
oh shit it’s the best gd youtuber norkbork
same
ur drama video was insane nice work
Ok
hi norkbork
It honestly just kills me inside how all of these green users from way back just got deleted permanently. I never really questioned all the "-" users or the TeamHax comments because I thought that the names just got removed over time by RobTop and that a random Korean player from back then got hacked and changed to TeamHax. All of the "-" users were going to keep their names. The TeamHax comments were from many users. This hacking basically killed most of the 2014 Geometry Dash community.
that's just horrifying to think about. Countless souls lost forever, crying out from within a monstrous golem.
jesus christ robtop fix your game
Surprisingly my 2016 account survived this catastrophe event, idk what happened, how and why but it's an unregistered account and nothing changed at all
I was wondering why the level creators didn't have names, i joined in September 2020 so i wasn't aware of what happened until i saw this video
@quriguess true, they were kinda bad at the game lol
I thought all the green users that were just dashes deleted their account or something I dunno
i like how every one is talking about space uk and all like- no, not even close literally anyone can cheat a demon
No one else cheated for 2 years at that scale though except maybe cyclic
@@douglaspantz ok but even if the spaceuk cheating scandal was as big as the cyclic cheating scandal, it absolutely was not as big as the teamhax/anaban hacking.
22:49 "1 Goddamn million years ago"
This comment existed before Geometry Dash or even The Impossible Game was born???
...
@@rl3d2008 huh
@@rl3d2008 yes, a goddamn million in my opinion would be 1 billion
Such a lovely voice
i agree
Ok!
yea
-it feels like text to speech with free will it’s great-
*terrifying
should go into voice acting, sounding this ominous is a talent
I once asked pavlukivan about the TeamHax account, he only told me all the comments from unregistered users were moved to this account. havent watched the vid yet, im hyped to see the explanations.
Well he was correct!
That’s so interesting~!
Hackerznak
i always wondered who teamhax is
And no wonder all my progress was lost
So that's how the "anonymous user" got the Fingerdash test versions, interesting
hehehehe...
@@UCK0OuOylVSOPMPuiq-U2jow *Oh no*
@@UCK0OuOylVSOPMPuiq-U2jow oh sheet
@@UCK0OuOylVSOPMPuiq-U2jow oh crap
@@UCK0OuOylVSOPMPuiq-U2jow oh no oh no oh no no no no no no oh no oh no oh no no no no no no
Virgin Geometry Dash Cheater posting youtube videos of speedhacked levels
vs
Chad Geometry Dash Hacker conosseuir stealing everyone's fun (and passwords)
lol
Sahhh dude haven’t seen you in a while
boys speedhack levels
men merge thousands of accounts into a single one
woah, it's been years since I've seen you
I'm surprised to hear many people didnt even hear about this, I remember it perfectly. and I blame mostly RobTop.
@Unknow Lucypher whats the point of ur comment
I agree. If it wasn’t for his ignorance, then most of this wouldn’t of happened
I have the most important exam in Korea upcoming in 5 days. Please give me a perfect score. Thank you.
Good luck bro got me an important exam in a bit aswell
I heard about it. GL.
GL dude
I wish you good luck 👍🍀
U.
this ruined:
1 - many people accuounts
2 - entire 2014 comment memories
3 - game
19:12 just saving that minute i ended at
I remember this, but you explained it to me at a much deeper level. The fact that the damage of these hackings are still evident today is saddening. I hope the community takes this as an important lesson.
Very good video. I saw this in my recommended and was about to skip past it until I saw it was by you, in which case I knew it would be worth my time. Thank you for sharing this with the community.
hello my name is chills and I hope you're enjoying my narrationnn
Lmao I was gonna comment this
@HibbAnH3 I was talking to the other guy :)
wow, i knew about "the big server hacking", but didn't know it was this deep and complicated... super interesting video!
Now i finally know why my old green account was randomly deleted
and i know why my level lavadash just up and adam vanish.... also i cant believe robtop was so full of himself and i hope he stops doing that and finally oneday stop the hacking
Because your old green account database was corrupted my TeamHax.
Rip savage dashers old account
Hey, it’s a real hacking fiasco and not just some players cheating with client mods. Interesting video. Definitely shows the importance of security-focused design.
Yeah
Remember this happening, absolute state of this game back then (and even now actually, with some save bugs still happening today). Nice video!
honestly for some reason seeing that people care about the history of this game makes me happy
so that's how my old account was lost forever
Wait a min
@@tentopia3517it’s been a year should I stop waiting
Im back
Personally, I believe the main fault lies in robtop’s hands. Yes what the hackers did was horrible and terrifying but it showed the flaws and dangers of what could happen if rob didn’t fix it. People LOST THEIR WHOLE ACCOUNTS because of robtops laziness.
rob couldnt even bother to help teamn2 get his account back, not even talking about all the other people losing data and accs. truly the worst game developer.
@@drakkolebanxn No, I think YandereDev is the worst game developer.
Still doesn't make Rob a good guy
@@drakkolebanxn Could robtop have done much better about the situation? Definitely. Is he the worst game developer? Absolutely not.
Not so fun fact your account password is in fhe ccgamemanager files
@@staringcorgi6475 small question: how do you know this? do you actually check the files (or you watched colon's useless gd information video?)
awww anabans leaving message is so cute
Well he achieved his goal
No it's not lmao
@@lord6074 yes it is lmao
@@indeeeed Not at all lol
@@lord6074 Are we talking about the same thing? If not cute it is at least positive no? What is your purpose in commenting it isnt when the matter is subjective?
I have started playing GD around early 1.9 and I only remember small things about this scandal, like Roadbose's and Powerbomb's account merging together, and the deletion of RobTop's first level. But I didn't know that this hacking scandal was THIS big. It's disturbing to see that this game is very unsafe, and is beyond repairing.
So thats how the delete limit was born? Damn thats interesting
I gues this video needs a part 2 now.
I find hilarious that once again, RobTop got warned in advance about a massive exploit on GD, tried to be tone deaf about it and do nothing pretending it doesn't exist and now because of that the massive exploit is out in the public and now GD can be straight up a potential virus
I still remember the time when the hacking scandal happened, I remember when Roadbose’s account became Powerbomb’s, I remember a lot of things from that era, and at the time I never noticed how much it MARKED the community, but thinking about it now, it almost gives me chills how much damage was done is such a short period of time.
😔
i uploaded sonic wave infinity from riots account lole
I luckily was aware of most of TeamHax's story because of a friend I won't mention. Like Glitter said, it really hurts to see that a lot of people were actually having fun with this and only a small part of the community actually cared about the situation...
the thumbnail brings back memories :^)
this has been a very underrated piece of the GD history, glad you covered it in full detail.
Great job on the editing as well, I liked it so much!
I find it weird how Anaban had a bigger influence on the community than TeamHax.
Same
you're bringing back the Sea1997 vibes, huge respect dude.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in so long…..
@@dusky5535 what happened to him
@@Doc.Brando he moved on to others things. I think he still does RUclips, but he goes by “Sea” now.
16:25
Duuuuude, that was one of my favourite demons...
Youre seriously one of the most underrated youtubers. You deserve more subs
hes not he has 30k subs
He needs more
@@nixray7133 he need more
I found Zobros' password when the account password thing came out but he changed his password before anyone gets to login into his account. Really scary
yeah it’s really disturbing when you find someone’s password or believe that you’ve found someone’s password cause what if it gets in the wrong hands or something
@@joechristo2 yup robtop should really work on antihack systems
i wonder if this is still the biggest hacking scandal
it is trust me
Compared to anaban, yeah
This is DEFINITELY RobTop's fault, not "no one's". What he did is complete negligence, and TeamHax was trying their absolute best to warn his lazy ass. It baffles me that RobTop didn't immediately take action the moment he was being warned. Not only the topic itself was already serious on its own, he was being warned MULTIPLE F**KING TIMES - implying that this was not just an average amateur type of exploit/hacking. He was already EXTREMELY LUCKY enough that TeamHax was vigilant about the possible exploits, even going an extra mile and OFFERED HIM security improvements, instead of using what they discovered to abuse the game's already vulnerable and lackluster system, but what did he do? He didn't f**king listen! He f**king wasted a massive opportunity that was literally presenting itself in front of his face!
What makes this negligence by RobTop so goddamned frustrating, and in my opinion, is the main person to be blamed, is that most, if not the entire hacking scandal could have been avoided if he just used some extra brain cells to listen to TeamHax. I'm not saying that the ones who initiated the server attack were innocent and not to be blamed. They were complete assholes and 100% responsible for the attack, but they were avoidable, if RobTop just listened.
I don't care if RobTop eventually fixed the problem, the damage was already done, and unfortunately for us, the damage was PERMANENT, all because of his negligence towards people who genuinely wanted to help him.
Robtop was even a victim of this
RobTop try not to be braindead challenge
honestly rob deserved this, after blatantly ignoring absolute's recommendations. rob just didn't care about what absolute said, and it backfired
i mean the damage wasnt really permanent like we dont really care today it was bad back then tho
Holy shit. I remember the password leaking, but didn’t know it was this bad..
kinda stupid to think that while that all was happening, i was completing map packs and getting user coins.
This is the most tragic incident in this game's history, so many levels, so much history... gone
Wow it's been a long time since I've heard someone talk about TeamHax/Anaban. As someone who was around and had friends affected by this scandal I personally enjoyed the depth this video went into with explaining the deeper implications of this entire situation.
14:18 i legit thought there was about to be a commercial break lol
I was scrolling down yt videos on my home page and saw your video and wow‚ I didn't expect someone to post a video mentioning my doc. Greatly appreciate it my g!
Nice voice and great video :) Probably the best of this year :D
Hope one day you'll forgive me for any drama I might've caused on your server, I've been trying to reform my ways.
@@Stormfly roar
What a well-formed documentary! I had originally thought that this was a recent event, but not many interesting events related to hacking take place nowadays. Quite a lot has transpired during this very long hacking scandal. If I had to picture it, I would imagine Geometry Dash (and its servers) to be a large mechanical conglomerate, slowly being broken down and tortured over time. Despite this, it still works, but sustains some mechanical breakdown in many parts.
The whole event was an exponential chain reaction - one thing led to two other things, which led to another four, eight, sixteen, and so on. As such, we cannot place the blame on any one person for all of this; even the root cause, while it may have led to a whole host of other things, really only holds responsibility for itself. Either way, there are some things that have transpired here here that are beyond our ability, as a community, to even get started with fixing. The damage has certainly been done, and now, we almost certainly will never see or hear from the thousands of lost levels, and tens of thousands of "Green user" comments.
You were correct when you said that most of us had completely forgotten about this, Stormfly. I had even started to wonder why there was a distinct lack of "unregistered/green user" comments in any level, be it old, new, famous, or unknown. Hundreds of gigabytes of data are lost, never to be seen again. Though, if I were to be completely honest, perhaps this was for the better. Don't misunderstand; I certainly would have loved to (properly) view all of Roadbose's levels, rather than seeing remakes of them.The same goes for many, many other creators. However, if you think about it a little, I personally do not think we would want to see any of these now-deleted levels with so much curiosity if they had never been deleted in the first place. They say that one does not know the value of something until it has been lost, or is otherwise inaccessible. Maybe, if all this had never happened, we would not have the grand lore that Geometry Dash has today. Perhaps Stormfly would not have created previous documentaries on topics such as Roadbose's deleted levels. Perhaps the game would lose its element of mystery. Perhaps it would be a little more predictable and boring. So, in a way, in the end, (again, don't misunderstand me) I am a little apprehensive of wishing all this had never happened in the first place. Geometry Dash itself would be a very different place housing a community with a very different mindset than what we have today.
Thank you for covering this topic, Stormfly. This was certainly a very interesting documentary. And the Geometry Dash lore continues to grow...
sans
lol your pfp goes well with your name
man just wrote a whole essay
Stormfly: The Nexpo Of Geometry Dash.
Nexpo is a commentator who goes over creepy and unnerving findings from the internet - this video has a really similar feel audio-wise and definitely got my attention.
Amazing video tho - I'm surprised not more people know about Teamhax.
Except stormfly’s vids have consistent quality.
Edit: I’m a fan of Nexpo, but he has made some disappointing videos
@@altaic9202 Nexpo has better quality than stormfly but ok
Many channels are like nexpo. But nexpo is probably my favorite
whatever channel you wanna compare him to, it's still good content.
i was there at that time. i had an account, it definitely was a scary thing to witness... hopefully nothing like this ever happens again
also, the spaceuk situation is nowhere near as bad as this one. thats a cheating scandal, not a hacking scandal. theres a difference
Wtf just realized I joined this community just a few days after this hacking situation
i'd 100% blame robtop for this
i would but hopefully he takes the game more seriously.... lets hope 😔
_”This is what happens when RobTop doesn’t listen”_
_-A wise man_
Damn. I played GD during 2016 and when Anaban hacked Bloodbath, I was in pure shock. Also, about TeamHax, I never knew anything about them, Pizzaroot’s stream and TheHaxor27’s stream and I thought the game was entirely safe at the time. I also never even questioned the “-“ or the unnamed green users and thought that they could’ve lost their save data over time. When I realized the green accounts were hacked is insane to think of. The hacking of these green accounts destroyed most of the Geometry Dash 2013-2015 community. If all of these green accounts were never hacked, many discoveries could’ve been made about old creators, old teams and old levels. Also about TeamN2’s leave, I was actually wondering the real truth about the team leaving the game.
Honestly I can see why 2.2 is taking so damn long now. Robtop really had to put up with a lot on top of making the update. I hope everything goes well for him and the game...
This guy explains this hacking scandal like its a creepy pasta lol
I hate how people think spaceuk did more damage than this incident
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@@yessirBRwhat a good point fr
@@yessirBRYou are incredible. You typed an ENTIRE nerd emoji. So much effort.
@@istoleyourorangejuice my bad I thought it was funny didn't quite remember this one, shame on me
I really wish Robtop was more open to working with other developers or programmers. On some level I can understand his reasoning to not want to, but when you see things like this happen, it just seems ridiculous not to.
@Gabriel Howell XD
Especially for back-end stuff
why do i feel like i'm about to get jumpscared
I feel like my account has been deleted while watching this video lol
I'm really impressed by the amount of effort you put into this video. I've joined the GD community around a year ago and I didn't know too much about all those hacking incidents, only that they happened. Thanks to you, now I know much more about them. In my opinion you're doing a great job in this community, making documentaries about its past. Much love and stay safe ❤️
this video is probably the best explanation of any part of GD history I've ever seen, looking forward to more of these (though idk if there are any more interesting events regarding GD)
idk how i missed this video but this awesome. Super interesting to see a real hacking scandal that objectively changed the game.
Wow, i remember around december of 2016 I watched Partition Zion's video about Anaban that shows the bb update and viprin and michigun's name changed to "i hate you all" and "i dont rly care". Fortunately i was only playing on gdw at that time :P. This vid brings back so much memories. Thank you stormfly!
This is more creepier than the mystery of herobrine😨
Yes
It is kinda creepy and sad at the same time
@@zan5701 iya bang
@@KlpinN wah indo bang
@@zan5701 ya, karena dari namamu aku udh tau lu orang sini :)
18:57 that one at the very bottom was my comment. I remember it because it was my first time commenting :(
Damn, that sucks. Also, what was the name of the account, the amount of account comments and the amount of levels the account had before the account was hacked?
TeamHax needs to be the most dictatorial organization in GD. No one should have access to any potentially damaging exploits without a year+ of experience as a trusted team member. If TeamHax is going to do white-hat hacking and create tools that help content creators like Mega Hack, that's great - and I wish RobTop would listen to them to get value from their discoveries - but they need to take responsibility for their own members and make sure that stuff like this cannot happen.
True.
Cvolton discovered the exploit that made this worse
a very well done documentary. definitely shed more light on the situation. thanks!
and also thank you for not putting in any generic Newgrounds music✨✨
lmao the presentation of this video is so overly dramatic, and honestly i'm all here for it. like this is actually super fucking interesting! and i think it's really good that you recorded your voice for this because trying to follow everything with just on screen text would not have worked at all
I swear, I don't know why, that I believed Stormfly was female.
My God, I was wrong.
fun fact: on february 28th i actually logged into michigun's account, i got mod; sent viking arena v2 and the level was featured Lol
i also uploaded a level that was shortly deleted and made desert temple a free demon, i was a right dickhead i know- i changed for the better a year later
😊
Then a man called spaceUK rocked up
Thats a cheating scandal, not a hacking scandal
These video’s are super interesting because this makes people know so much more about the history of geometry dash, keep it up
Good video! You explained everything in this video very well and fluently. I recommend you make more videos like this in the near future.
Robtop should rewrite the servers in something like Node.js or even plain C++ which makes it easier to control everything.
Was it written on Java?
@@lukethekuya No, with PHP and SQL
@@iliashdz9106 Owww...
Did not know Python may have server safety problems...
Probably because of how easy it is to use.
@@lukethekuya ik its like 2 years late but php doesn't mean phyton, and php is more secure nowadays but you still have to know what you're doing
@@GDNachoo Ah okies!
When the song stopped at the end and after that you said "...will ever" literally chill down my spine
Ironically enough I joined Geometry Dash as an unregistered user on February 27, 2017, but I guess I got lucky.
In many years I've been playing this game, I only discovered this events now. Thinking about so much happening behind the curtains while I was normally having fun playing, feels creepy
I was never aware of this simply because I wasn't as active in GD in 2017. I heard about this hacking from SEA's video listing every drama in 2.1 and mentioning that it's the reason TeamN2 disbanded. Just hearing about this gave me goosebumps... I would've never thought the reason behind the blank green usernames and the cause of a team disbandment would be because of something so devastatingly scary. Outstanding video. I absolutely love videos like this where it goes deep into depth with events like these. :D
some criticism, I think the audio was too quiet, I turned up the audio to hear the video clearly then got jump scared by ads
Damn I remember this one, there was a smaller server hacking mess back in October 2016 aswell but I'm pretty sure that was all down to anaban, good video!
really great documentary, i briefly remember this happening back then but didnt know it went to this extent
this explains why i have seen so many green dash names in the last recent years..
this happening under the majority's radar really makes up for my unknowledge for the community news yet scares me how.. how *this is how teamn2 actually left for..* i didn't have good devices to play their levels yet i enjoyed them being here as they were the 1st team i ever heard of and expected good stuff from
good job stormfly and i hope u can make more videos like this as this is just pure gold for the community
After watching this, I have realized that I missed this whole event by a few months...
Also, why would people do things like that?
Very nice video. You always manage to find very interesting topics and this is certainly interesting. Great Video :D
Wtf…this is like the burning of the library of Alexander in IRL history.
crazy scale, but yes. It also drove some people to quit gd even so it is worse
Wow, really well-made video. While watching this I remembered a lot of hacking scandals during 2017. Man, time flies...
You remind me of Sea1997, I miss these types of documentaries so well done!
oh wow this brings back memories
Surprise: There's a new one.
hacking scandal not cheating scandal
nowhere close
i'm a former admin of the forum and i coincidentally stepped down just before this all happened. kinda wish i waited a little just so i got to witness it all by myself. great video
I never realised that - for green users were because of hacking. I originally thought that all featured lvls by a green user were made the green user called a - and green users can no longer get rated. Thanks for letting me know Stormfly! :)
This aged well
The thought of my password still being out there haunts me a little... thank god I just changed it! Awesome video!
Most people blame robtop for the games bad security, which is quite understandable, but if you look at it from his perspective, the game he had worked on for so long, devoted so much time and effort into, was basically rotting from the inside out.
We also dont know what was going on with his personal life, whether he was struggling with some sort of loss, whether he was depressed or whether he was losing motivation, which is why it's quite annoying to hear people say
"Robtop doesnt care about the game anymore"
It's kinda sad how much history was lost because of this :(
so that's what happened to skrillex party??? i remember playing a level along the lines of that name 5 years ago in 1.9 only to come back recently to find out it was deleted :(
Same
Creator deleted it, but there are still some copies of it.
thank you so much for doing a voiceover yes!
The "roadbose deleted levels" part hit hard because as a 1.1 or 1.2 player, it's very possible that I played these levels all these years ago. And to think that people won't have the chance to do that ever again is scary. Whoever or whatever got these levels deleted gave preservation the middle finger.
tbh stormy has the perfect voice for a documentary
Plants make food by the process of photosynthesis
Nice video btw I can tell you put a lot of work into it