Apex Legends tournament hacker speaks out and swears it was ‘a joke’

A person responsible for hacking someone Apex Legends This weekend’s global tournament revealed their motives: they did it “just for fun.”

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interview with one of the hackers who calls himself Destroyer2009. In it they explain their decision in detail Set your sights on the Apex Legends Global Series Esports tournament (with a $5 million prize pool) was based partly on a desire to play around, but also on forcing developer Respawn to patch the exploit they were using. According to the hacker, his shenanigans forced the ALGS to do so postpone the tournament “Because the competitive integrity of this series was at risk,” the hack was benevolent.

“Not many people would have used an exploit like this in a way that was completely harmless to players,” said Destroyer2009 TechCrunch. “Imagine if it wasn’t a joke and we didn’t include memes in the cheat. I’m pretty sure you can ruin someone’s career if a cheat shows up at a tournament.” The hack occurred during the North American finals and only appeared to have affected two players: Noyan “Genburten” Ozkose, who was a wallhacker. received a cheat that allowed him to see through walls, and Phillip “ImperialHal” Doses, who suddenly had an aimbot (perfect accuracy) applied to his weapons. While the pros screamed about being hacked, an in-game chatbot reportedly displayed messages from the hackers and a window opened with options for various cheats that could be activated, such as autofire, magic bullets, target lock, and one of the most bizarrely said: “Vote for Putin.”

Videos of the hack were broadcast Apex Legends and esports communities went into a tailspin, leaving gamers worried about whether their own casual games were now unsafe. But Destroyer2009 assured TechCrunch that they did not hack Genburten and Dose’s computers and that the exploit “had nothing to do with the server and….” [they’ve] I never touched anything outside apex

Procedure.”

But Destroyer2009, who worked with another hacker called R4ndom to hack the ALGS, refused to comment TechCrunch what exploits they used and said, “I really don’t want to go into the details until everything is fully patched and everything is back to normal.” Why not? Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts do not offer any financial compensation for players who find and report bugs and exploits. Destroyer2009 believes that Respawn “[knows] how to patch it without anyone reporting it to them.”

Respawn made a statement on X (formerly Twitter). on March 19, stating that the developers have “deployed the first of a multi-layered series of updates to protect the.” Apex Legends community of players and create a safe experience for everyone.”