{"id":73675,"date":"2024-03-20T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/apex-legends-tournament-hacker-speaks-swears-it-was-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:10:02","slug":"apex-legends-tournament-hacker-speaks-swears-it-was-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/apex-legends-tournament-hacker-speaks-swears-it-was-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends Event Hacker Speaks, Swears It Was \u2018A Joke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">A person chargeable for hacking an <em>Apex Legends<\/em> international event over the weekend has revealed their motivations: they did it \u201conly for enjoyable.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 fzSzvw\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 enlHCF instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"196653,194143,191033\" data-current=\"196653\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 biVjcq video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"196653\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"The Week In Games: A Star Wars Classic Returns &amp; More New Releases\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"105\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>The Week In Video games: A Star Wars Traditional Returns &amp; Extra New Releases<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196653\/196653_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196653\/196653_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196653\/196653_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196653\/196653_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/22209.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">That quote comes from a brand new <span><em>TechCrunch<\/em> interview<\/span> with one of many hackers, who goes by Destroyer2009. In it, they element that their resolution to <span>goal the Apex Legends World Sequence<\/span> esports event (which boasts a prize pool of $5 million) was based mostly partially in a want to fiddle, but additionally to drive developer Respawn to patch the exploit they utilized. In response to the hacker, whose shenanigans <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced the ALGS to <\/a><\/span><span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1769527345176621110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">postpone the tournament<\/a><\/span> \u201cas a result of aggressive integrity of this sequence being compromised,\u201d the hack was a benevolent one. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1769530771969065324&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1769530771969065324\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201cNot many individuals would have used an exploit like that in a completely harmless approach for gamers,\u201d Destroyer2009 informed <em>TechCrunch. <\/em>\u201cSimply think about if it wasn\u2019t a joke and we didn\u2019t put any memes within the cheat, I\u2019m fairly certain you&#8217;ll be able to break somebody\u2019s profession if that they had a cheat pop up on a event.\u201d The hack happened in the course of the North American finals, and appeared to have solely affected two gamers: Noyan \u201cGenburten\u201d Ozkose, who was given a wallhack cheat that allow him see via partitions, and Phillip \u201cImperialHal\u201d Dosen, who out of the blue had an aimbot (excellent accuracy) utilized to his weapons. Whereas the professionals had been shouting about being hacked, an in-game chatbot reportedly confirmed messages from the hackers, and a window popped up that confirmed choices for a wide range of cheats that might be enabled, like autofire, magic bullets, goal lock, and one which mentioned, bizarrely, \u201cVote Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Movies of the hack despatched the <em>Apex Legends<\/em> and esports communities right into a tailspin, which gamers worrying if their very own, informal matches had been now unsafe. However Destroyer2009 assured <em>TechCrunch<\/em> that they didn&#8217;t hack Genburten\u2019s and Dosen\u2019s computer systems, and the exploit \u201chad nothing to do with the server and [they\u2019ve] by no means touched something exterior of the <em>Apex<\/em> course of.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">However Destroyer2009, who labored alongside one other hacker referred to as R4ndom to hack the ALGS, refused to inform <em>TechCrunch<\/em> what exploits they used, saying \u201cI actually don\u2019t need to go into the small print till every part is totally patched and every part goes again to regular.\u201d Why not? As a result of Respawn and writer Digital Arts don&#8217;t provide monetary compensation for gamers who discover and report bugs and exploits. Destroyer2009 believes that Respawn \u201c[knows] learn how to patch it with out anybody reporting it to them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Respawn\/status\/1770285073688137762&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Respawn\/status\/1770285073688137762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Respawn issued a statement on X (formerly Twitter)<\/a><\/span> on March 19, stating that devs have \u201cdeployed the primary of a layered sequence of updates to guard the <em>Apex Legends<\/em> participant group and create a safe expertise for everybody.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/apex-legends-global-series-hack-postpone-exploit-1851353297\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A person chargeable for hacking an Apex Legends international event over the weekend has revealed their motivations: they did it \u201conly for enjoyable.\u201d The Week In Video games: A Star Wars Traditional Returns &amp; Extra New Releases That quote comes from a brand new TechCrunch interview with one of many hackers, who goes by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1253,2493,2582,446,2464,18175,2228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73676,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73675\/revisions\/73676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}