I want to know what percentage of Scratchers have been hacked in some way. I'd like to use these stats in some ongoing debates on whether or not to implement suggestions to make scratch safer.

A skim through the wiki's hacking page didn't seem to show much.

No one really gets hacked on Scratch, from what I hear. The only times someone gets “hacked” is either they told someone their password, or they forgot to log out of their account before leaving their computer.

None; every compromised account had a password that they gave out or that was easy to guess.

They're not going to reveal it. After all, sometimes it is hard to tell when someone was hacked, or if they broke the CGs and decided to play the “I was hacked” card.

Plus, even if so, it is not necessary. I would also fear that making a page on the small amount of users who got hacked would only encourage users to hack more. That's why they didn't add it on the wiki, anyway.

apple502j hacked his alt accounts.

Za-Chary wrote:

No one really gets hacked on Scratch, from what I hear. The only times someone gets “hacked” is either they told someone their password, or they forgot to log out of their account before leaving their computer.

K, thanks. Gonna quote that

Even if there were a lot of instance of real, genuine “hacking”, there's no way to definitely define or simply know which account shave been hacked, so it's not really something you can count.

Maximouse wrote:

apple502j hacked his alt accounts.

I hacked my alts.

ninjaMAR wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

apple502j hacked his alt accounts.

I hacked my alts.

Woah, funny man/woman/nonbinary/other (if I just said “funny man” I'd be in big trouble )

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

ninjaMAR wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

apple502j hacked his alt accounts.

I hacked my alts.

Woah, funny man/woman/nonbinary/other (if I just said “funny man” I'd be in big trouble )

I'm a man

there's been a grand total of 0 known hacking incidents against scratchers.

that being said, bug hunter apple502j has hacked their alts to demonstrate their account takeover/other bugs.

however, that's what I would consider hacking. some people would consider password guessing hacking but that happens all the time, and it's your fault if you have an easy password.

Za-Chary wrote:

No one really gets hacked on Scratch, from what I hear. The only times someone gets “hacked” is either they told someone their password, or they forgot to log out of their account before leaving their computer.

What? What happens if you close the computer without hitting “log out”?

Krokophant wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

No one really gets hacked on Scratch, from what I hear. The only times someone gets “hacked” is either they told someone their password, or they forgot to log out of their account before leaving their computer.

What? What happens if you close the computer without hitting “log out”?

some evil robber evil supervillain naughty kid might turn on your computer and do bad stuff with your account

Scratchy697 wrote:

Krokophant wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

No one really gets hacked on Scratch, from what I hear. The only times someone gets “hacked” is either they told someone their password, or they forgot to log out of their account before leaving their computer.

What? What happens if you close the computer without hitting “log out”?

some evil robber evil supervillain naughty kid might turn on your computer and do bad stuff with your account

Thats why you put passwords on your computers. Is it that hard?

First of all, my logins are saved on my computer on about:logins . Even if logged off, people would be able to see my stored logins. my family would'nt hack me. The only place where I might be vulnerable is school. Besides, I don't have many classmates that would decide to go to scratch.mit.edu, hunt down my account, and hack everything I have on Scratch for fun. Speak for yourself, but I don't think I'm at much risk from hackers.

It depends on which type of hacking. White hat hacking is somebody hacking to find bugs and report them, under permission from the organization. Grey hat hacking is when someone hacks to find and report bugs without the permission of the owners of the site. Black hat hacking is malicious hacking.

Black hat hacking - Probably 0, unless you count people giving out passwords.
Grey/White hat hacking - There are instances of this, as mentioned before with people like @apple502j.