Very Inappropriate Words on Cloud Game (!!!)

spookywooky22

Sorry if this is on the wrong part of the forums, because I am not sure where to put this.
There has been a very large problem appearing on Griffpatch's latest MMO platformer.
Every once in a while for the last few days, the fastest time appears to be a person with swear words on their username, and a time of 0 seconds which shouldn't be possible.
I checked the cloud history and can't seem to find any sign of this user changing it.
This must be hacked in some way because accounts with swear words should normally be banned. Comments from the past few days can prove that the “hacker” has appeared. Weirdly enough, the hacker also appears on Turbowarp cloud servers at the same time!
This is a giant problem and needs to be solved so I have turned to ask help on the forums.
To see the comment proof and the game, go to Griffpatch's profile and click on his MMO game.
Hopefully, this problem can be solved immediately!!!

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spookywooky22

The hacked username is always different and includes very bad words.

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k0d3rrr

This has been reported multiple times before. It can't be stopped. Even if a hacker was reported and their account was taken down (if they were hacking via a Scratch account), another hacker would take their place.
Unless one hacker had multiple accounts, of which they used to hack the cloud variables to show racial slurs and other stuff. Then they could be reported and their account taken down.
(Also, I think hackers can also hack Scratch from outside of Scratch?)

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sukune

report the user? most people cant really do a thing when someone has a 0 second record

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colinmacc

It's being done from outside scratch, and the scratch team can't stop it.

If it persists they will have no alternative but to turn off cloud variables for everybody. Which would be a shame.

Whoever is doing it, should just grow up and stop doing it, or everyone will lose out.

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Unfortunately since the problem is ocurring on Turbowarp there is nothing the Scratch Team can do about it, but hopefully those users will stop soon.

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It would be a huge shame to lose something like global variables because someone wanted to be funny and gone too overbored.

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spookywooky22

Thanks for all the answers!
It's a shame that cloud might disappear.
I hope that whoever is doing this stops!

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I have seen a website how its done, but can't find it now

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-Quantum_Studios-

Yeah, hackers are just horrible people. I hope this stops soon.

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-gr

-Quantum_Studios- wrote:
Yeah, hackers are just horrible people. I hope this stops soon.

These aren't hackers, they're simply users who used the TurboWarp feature to change the username sent through the username block.

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spookywooky22

Yes, it comes from Turbowarp

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Well, this is an issue that just can't be stopped. But hopefully this horrible person stops.

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-gr wrote:
-Quantum_Studios- wrote:
Yeah, hackers are just horrible people. I hope this stops soon.
These aren't hackers, they're simply users who used the TurboWarp feature to change the username sent through the username block.

Wait a min, Turbo uses scratch cloud or its own cloud? if it uses its own cloud than why can we see names in real MMP

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scratchering_coder

Cloud variables hacking was everytime a problem, some of griffpatch projects got cloud hacked, like getting over it and appel.

Now at getting over it the first on the leaderboard is with 0,00 and the username is hacked like “mr fluid”, this is probably a cloud hack.

sukune wrote:
report the user? most people cant really do a thing when someone has a 0 second record

Sometimes you can't because the hackers can change their username that appear in the cloud history.

colinmacc

-Morni- wrote:
-gr wrote:
-Quantum_Studios- wrote:
Yeah, hackers are just horrible people. I hope this stops soon.
These aren't hackers, they're simply users who used the TurboWarp feature to change the username sent through the username block.
Wait a min, Turbo uses scratch cloud or its own cloud? if it uses its own cloud than why can we see names in real MMP

You're correct, it's nothing to do with TurboWarp.

It's people manipulating cloud variables using Python or something like that. The Scratch team seem to be either unwilling or unable to stop it.

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It could also be an HTTP proxy, where you can modify things sent to a website.

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colinmacc

EveryPizza wrote:
It could also be an HTTP proxy, where you can modify things sent to a website.

Yes, it could be

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123nothing123

It's from an outside source. Scratch could probably find a way to stop manipulation on cloud variables from outside sources.

Like rage games?

kccuber

123nothing123 wrote:
Scratch could probably find a way to stop manipulation on cloud variables from outside sources.

Which would require removing cloud altogether, as python modules that allow you to change cloud vars set a custom useragent (browser and operating system to make it look like it's something that it isn't)

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