More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

The child’s attorney, Stanley Gipe, said the boy was playing Roblox when he was contacted by someone posing as a young girl.

Roblox, along with other games, are encountering server issues due to a global server outage happening this Oct. 20.

If you’re trying to play Roblox and keep running into connection timeouts, login errors, or server-not-available messages, it ...