Apex Legends hacker says game developers patched exploit used on streamers
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast month, a hacker wreaked havoc during an esports tournament of the popular shooter game Apex Legends, hacking two well-known streamers mid-game to make it look like they were using cheats.
A month later, it seems like the hacking saga may have come to a close with the game developers patching the bug exploited by the hacker.
Because of the hack, the organizers had to suspend the tournament on March 17. Two days later, Apex Legends developer Respawn said on its official X account that it had ‘deployed the first of a layered series of updates to protect the Apex Legends player community.’ Then a week later, the company wrote that it had ‘added another update that is intended to further protect our players and ensure the competitive integrity of Apex Legends.’
‘The exploit I’ve used in [Apex Legends Global Series] is fully patched,’ the hacker who goes by Destroyer2009 said in an online chat.
‘No one likes when severe vulnerabilities in your product are exposed publicly. I asked my friend and we both agreed that we don’t really want to publicly expose what happened from a technical perspective yet,’ the hacker said, referring to a friend he worked with to develop the hack.
Referring to an unrelated botched in-game update by Respawn this week, Destroyer2009 said: ‘[I] don’t think embarrassing them even more is fair.’
Destroyer2009 said he tested his exploit after Respawn’s announcement of the second update on March 26, although he said it’s possible it was patched sooner because he didn’t have a chance to test it before.
Destroyer2009’s hacks were high-profile, disruptive, and caused a big stir in the Apex Legends community. The two streamers targeted, ImperialHal and Geburten, collectively have 2.5 million followers on the game streaming platform Twitch, and several other Apex Legends players and streamers commented on the news of the hacks on their channels.
Meanwhile, Destroyer2009 said he won’t do any more public hacks for now, because ‘anything more severe than the [Apex tournament hack] accident will be already considered as a real hacking with all the consequences so [probably] will just play the game until it gets boring as usual.’
Ref: techcrunch
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