Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Questions

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Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Questions
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the North American Finals of Apex Legends, and players are now starting to potentially worry about their own accounts and the overall safety of the game.

Respawn and EA have postponed the North American Finals in the wake of the “competitive integrity” of the game being compromised. This involved a wild situation where someone wasthe pros hacks like aimbots and wallhacks as they were playing in the Finals event, effectively ruining the entire thing without anyoneThis shocked players and one even got banned from the game for using an aimbot cheat before Respawn shut the entire thing down.

What’s unclear is the extent of the breach. There is some concern that it might not just be for messing with the pros at the finals, but a larger security issue with the entire game that could affect the wider playerbase. Some creators arethat they’ve scanned their PCs and are finding viruses, though there’s so much panic going around there’s no evidence that has to do with this hack.

Not that this is necessarily related, but Respawn was just hit days ago with 23 layoffs including Apex Legends developers, some of whom were longtime veterans. Though if anything, this shows that EA needs to beef up Apex’s security team to some extent as something like this requires all hands, or more hands, on deck than they currently have now, it seems.

Even if this ends here, injecting cheats into pro players accounts to disrupt an event and even get one insta-banned is out of this world. This will need serious exploration and statements from Respawn as soon as possible to get a more clear picture of what happened and how things will be fixed from here.

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