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Apex Legends Tournament Suspended Following Hacking Incident Amidst EA Layoffs

The Apex Legends game was struck by a hacking attack on Sunday night that resulted in the game's esports league temporarily suspending North American tournaments.

In the middle of a tournament match, Apex pro player Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose said that his game was hacked and taken over to spread cheats on his account.

In a video clip from the player's live stream, the cheat program's settings menu briefly appears before Genburten shouts, "I'm hacked, I'm hacked!"

Genburten, who was playing on a controller, was surprised when text appeared in the chat box of his account: "by Destroyer2009 & R4ndom" and "Apex hacking global series."

Genburten said that he could see everyone. The locations of all other players appear on the screen, indicating that someone has applied a visibility hack to his account.

Text connected to the cheat program also appears in the top left corner of the player's screen. Soon after that Genburten decided to leave the game. Allegedly, the incident was caused by an RCE exploit, or remote code execution attack.

A screenshot of what appeared on Genburten's screen shows that the cheat contains an aimbot, a weapon recoil reducer, and an "autofire" feature, among other things. The box was also checked and it said "vote Putin".

Until now it is still not known for certain why or how the incident occurred. The Apex Legends server or Source engine it uses may have been exploited.

At around 10 a.m. ET on Monday, the Easy Anti-Cheat Twitter account that had shown no activity since 2019 suddenly went live again and stated that its software was not the method used for the attack.

Although Sunday's incident appears to be an external attack, many players have installed cheats in Apex Legends despite the existence of kernel-level anti-cheats for years.

According to the Apex streamer known as Lindsey "LuluLuvely", the cheating situation this season has gone "out of control".

The Apex esports tournament incident occurred just days after the game publisher, EA, fired around 23 employees working on the game. Last year, they also laid off 200 Apex Legends quality assurance testers.

Overall, EA is laying off about 5% of its company and using generative AI, with EA CEO Andrew Wilson estimating that the game publisher could incorporate genAI into about 60% of their current development workflows.

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