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On Sunday , two competitory esports players appeared to get hack during a live - streamed game , prompting the organizers to postpone the tournament .
player were competing in theApex Legends Global Series , a competitive esports tourney for the popular shooter game Apex Legends , which has a $ 5 million entire trophy pond .
During two separate games , two unlike players suddenly gained cheat in the middle of their matches .
“ look , what the fuck ? I ’m getting hacked , I ’m getting hacked bro , I ’m getting hack , ” say Genburten , hold up his hand up during the secret plan , according to a video they post on X , which was also posted on multiple YouTube channels .
In the television , it ’s clear that at one point — suddenly — Genburten start encounter other players play up on the map , even those behind walls . This is what is called “ wallhack , ” fundamentally a cheat that allows hacker to see adversary through in - game obstruction .
Before that , for a split moment , a window appears on their screen , with what looks like a menu for a tool to enable cheats , titled “ TSM HALAL come-on . ”
At the same meter , the game ’s chatbotshows a messagethat come along to come from the hacker : “ Apex hacking global serial , by Destroyer2009 & R4andom . ”
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In the other match , something similar happens to another competitory Apex Legends player , ImperialHal , who also posted the chronological sequence on their X story .
“ I ’m cheating , I ’m betray , I ’m cheat on , I ’m fucking cheating , ” say ImperialHal . “ I have aimbot ! ” allege ImperialHal repeatedly , denote to a common cheating proficiency that allows players to mechanically aim at enemies , basically produce the power to hit opponents and other players without aiming at them . “ What if I just do n’t pip ? What if I just do n’t shoot ? ”
“ Due to the competitive integrity of this series being compromised , we have made the decision to postpone the [ North America ] finals at this time . We will share more information soon,”announced the prescribed Apex Legends Esports calculate on X.
At this point , it ’s unreadable on the button what fall out . Electronic Arts , the publisher of Apex Legends , did not immediately react to emails from TechCrunch requesting comment . Neither did Genburten and ImperialHal .
On Monday , the makers of the anti - cheat system on Apex Legends and other games , Easy Anti - Cheat , reign out the theory that there is a remote codification execution ( RCE ) bug in the anti - cheat system . An RCE is a surety flaw that leave a distant hacker to run malicious codification on a target ’s twist .
“ We have look into recent reports of a potential RCE issue within Easy Anti - Cheat . At this metre – we are confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploit . We will proceed to work closely with our partners for any follow up support call for , ” the official Easy Anti - Cheat accountposted on X.
