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Apex Legends North American Finals Postponed Following Unprecedented Hack

Casey Bell Updated: Posted:
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Apex Legends’ North American Finals were postponed recently due to the impact of a an unprecedented breach during the tournament. We’re used to hearing stories about a pro here and there getting caught using cheats during a tournament, but what happened over the weekend was quite shocking to say the least.

Pros participating in the North American Finals were somehow distributed cheats, including aimbots and wallhacks, and one player even ended up getting banned before EA stepped in and postponed the event.

Concerns that the game’s Easy Anti-Cheat had been breached and that what players were experiencing was an RCE (or remote code execution) that could put all players at risk. Easy Anti-Cheat released a statement soon after, concluding that there was no evidence of an RCE vulnerability within the software.

Some speculated that the situation originated with a hacker named Destroyer2009, who has a history of hacking pros in the past, though we aren’t aware of anything to substantiate that at this time.

We’ll bring you any updates from EA and Respawn as they develop.