Apex Legends hacker claims ALGS hacks were \u201cjust for fun\u201d Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends hacker Destroyer2009 revealed in an interview their motives behind the recent ALGS hacks were \u201cjust for fun,\u201d but to also point out Respawn\u2019s vulnerabilities. Apex Legends was recently hit with a hack that cast doubt on the games\u2019 security as two pro players were given hacks against their own will in the middle of an ALGS tournament. Several days after the incident, the hacker, known as Destroyer2009, has gone on record to talk about his motives and why he interrupted one of the biggest events of the year. Apex Legends hacker Destroyer2009 reveals why he hacked ALGS Finals Speaking to TechCrunch in an interview, Destroyer2009 took credit for the hacks and said he was doing it \u201cjust for fun\u201d, but also to force Respawn to fix vulnerabilities he exploited in Apex Legends. Destroyer didn\u2019t reveal how he pulled off the hack, as he wanted to wait until \u201ceverything is fully patched and goes back to normal\u201d before doing so. Although, he teased that the vulnerability had nothing to do with anything outside of Apex. According to the hacker, it \u201chas nothing to do with the server and I\u2019ve never touched anything outside of the Apex process.\u201d Adding that he never hacked the players\u2019 computers directly, only through the game. Destroyer argued that his hacks on ALGS were never meant to be malicious, rather, intentionally approached it in an \u201cinnocent way for players. \u201cJust imagine if it wasn\u2019t a joke and we didn\u2019t put any memes in the cheat, I\u2019m pretty sure you can ruin someone\u2019s career if they had a cheat pop up on a tournament.\u201d As for why he didn\u2019t privately approach Respawn or EA about the exploit, Destroyer said it\u2019s because they don\u2019t financially reward hackers or researchers for privately reporting security flaws. Despite the worrying issues that Destroyer exposed, Respawn has already addressed the hacks, rolling out a new suite of security updates to curb the exploit, with the first of several updates going out on March 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends hacker claims ALGS hacks were \u201cjust for fun\u201d Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends hacker Destroyer2009 revealed in an interview their motives behind the recent ALGS hacks were \u201cjust for fun,\u201d but to also point out Respawn\u2019s vulnerabilities. Apex Legends was recently hit with a hack that cast doubt on the games\u2019 security as two pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}