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Last month , a drudge work havoc during an esports tournamentof the pop shooter secret plan Apex Legends , hack two well - known streamers mid - secret plan to make it look like they were using cheats .
A calendar month afterward , it seems like the hack on saga may have come to a close with the secret plan developers patch the bug exploited by the hacker .
Because of the hack , the organizers had to suspend the tournament on March 17 . Two days afterward , Apex Legends developer Respawnsaid on its official X accountthat it had “ deployed the first of a layered series of updates to protect the Apex Legends player residential area . ” Then a workweek by and by , thecompany publish that it had“added another update that is intend to further protect our thespian and ensure the free-enterprise unity of Apex Legends . ”
Respawn ’s mail do n’t clearly say that the updates patched the bugs tap during the tourney . But the hacker behind the chisel scandal told TechCrunch this week that Respawn ’s patch set the vulnerability that he had work to hack the two streamer .
“ The effort I ’ve used in [ Apex Legends Global Series ] is to the full patched , ” the drudge , who goes by Destroyer2009 , said in an on-line chat .
Destroyer2009,who previously told TechCrunchthat he had hack the two streamers “ for playfulness , ” said he did n’t want to let out any technical detail of the microbe he exploited , even if it is now patch up .
“ No one likes when severe vulnerability in your ware are display publically . I asked my friend and we both match that we do n’t really want to publically display what happened from a technological perspective yet , ” the hacker said , look up to a friend he worked with to develop the hack .
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refer toan unrelated botched in - secret plan updateby Respawn this week , Destroyer2009 say : “ [ I ] do n’t think blockade them even more is reasonable . ”
Destroyer2009 said he tested his exploit after Respawn ’s annunciation of the 2nd update on March 26 , although he said it ’s possible it was patched sooner because he did n’t have a prospect to test it before .
Destroyer2009 ’s hacks were high - profile , riotous and caused a freehanded bustle in the Apex Legends community . The two streamers targeted , ImperialHalandGenburten , collectively have 2.5 million followers on the biz - streaming platform Twitch , andseveralotherApex fable players and streamerscommented on thenews of the hacks on their channels .
Yet , Respawn is n’t being forthcoming about the bandage it give up . TechCrunch need Respawn and Electronic Arts , the owners of the development studio apartment , to confirm whether the exploit used by Destroyer2009 is indeed patched , and if so , when it was patch .
But neither Respawn nor Electronic Arts responded to TechCrunch ’s multiple requests for comment . The two companies did not reply to requests for remark in the last few week either .
Meanwhile , Destroyer2009 said he wo n’t do any more public hacks for now , because “ anything more severe than the [ Apex tourney hack ] fortuity will be already considered as a genuine hacking with all the consequence so [ belike ] will just play the secret plan until it get irksome as usual . ”
