The individual responsible for the hack apex legend The weekend’s global championship revealed their motivations: they were doing it “just for fun.”
This quote comes from a new TechCrunch interview One of the hackers is named Destroyer2009.They detailed their decision in Targeting the Apex Legends Global Series The eSports tournament (with a prize pool of up to $5 million) is designed in part to cause chaos, but it’s also to force developer Respawn to patch the vulnerabilities they exploit.According to the hacker, his prank Force ALGS postpone game The hack was deemed bona fide “as the competitive integrity of the series is compromised.”
Destroyer2009 said: “Not many people would exploit a vulnerability like this to attack players in an absolutely innocent way.” Technology Blog. “Imagine if this wasn’t a joke and we didn’t add any memes to the cheating, I’m pretty sure if someone cheated in a tournament you could ruin their career.” The hack occurred on During the North American finals, it seemed to only affect two players: Noyan “Genburten” Ozkose, who was given a wall-hacking cheat that allowed him to see through walls, and Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen, who suddenly had an aimbot (with perfect accuracy ) applies to his gun. When pro players screamed that they had been hacked, the in-game chatbot reportedly displayed a message from the hacker and a pop-up showing various cheat options that could be enabled, such as auto-fire, magic bullets, target lock, and more . Oddly, it says “Vote Putin.”
Video sent by hacker apex legend The esports community is in turmoil, with players worried that their casual matches are now unsafe.But Destroyer2009 guarantees TechCrunch They did not compromise Genburten and Dosen’s computers, and the vulnerability “is not related to the server. [they’ve] Never been exposed to anything other than top notch process. ”
But Destroyer2009, who cracked ALGS with another hacker named R4ndom, refused to disclose the matter. TechCrunch What vulnerabilities did they use and said “I really don’t want to reveal the details until everything is fully patched and everything is back to normal.” Why not? Because Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts will not provide financial compensation to players who find and report bugs and exploits. Destroyer2009 thinks Respawn “[knows] How to patch it without anyone reporting it to them. ”
Respawn issued a statement on X (formerly Twitter) On March 19, it was stated that the developers “deployed the first in a series of layered updates to protect apex legend community of players and create a safe experience for everyone. ”