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Apex Legends streamers warned to 'perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible' after hacks during NA Finals match | The hack may have been spread through Apex's anti-cheat software.


The hack may have been spread through Apex's anti-cheat software.

A Twitch clip of the moment shows the words "Apex hacking global series by Destroyer2009 & R4ndom" repeating over chat as he realizes he's been given a cheat and takes his hands off the controls. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank.

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