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Apex Legends devs confirm esports hacking incident, respond with ‘layered’ updates
Pro players were targeted while streaming their ALGS matches.
Apex Legends has postponed the North America finals for its Global Series championship over concerns that hackers have compromised the “competitive integrity” of the game. A Twitch clip of DarkZero’s Noyan “Genburten” Ozkose shows a UI interface for aimbot software appearing on his screen, at the same moment that a message reading “Apex hacking global series by Destroyer2009 & R4ndom” begins repeatedly spamming chat. While not much is known about “R4ndom” — one of the two aliases mentioned during Genburten’s hack — “Destroyer2009” is recognized for previous questionable activity targeting Apex Legends players like ImperialHal and Mande.
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