Apex Legends pro HisWattson under fire over leaked messages to hacker and \u201chating\u201d Respawn dev ALGSOne of the top Apex Legends pro players and streamers, Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin, has come under scrutiny from the community after a series of leaked messages he sent to a notorious hacker and leaker. HisWattson was signed to Furia\u2019s professional roster ahead of the ALGS World Championship 2022, where they finished second, and HisWattson was named MVP. However, as well as his skill in the game, McMillin has also earned a reputation for speaking out about the game itself, and has had public spats with Respawn developers in the past. On September 5, tensions between HisWattson and Respawn sparked again. He complained that the security team for Apex Legends was unavailable on weekends, leaving him unable to stream due to targeted attacks against his games. Sparking debate with his post, other professional players and streamers argued that he wasn\u2019t being fair, and that it can\u2019t be expected for developers to work weekends for the sake of one player\u2019s issue. \u201cThe devs have lives too,\u201d said streamer Nokokopuffs. \u201c99% of people with your problem would have to submit a ticket and wait\/play a game of email tag. Waiting 1-2 days isn\u2019t so bad.\u201d HisWattson messages to hacker leaked The following day, a hacker and leaker in the Apex community shared a screenshot of messages that HisWattson had sent, asking for help with the attacks on his games. \u201cI just know you\u2019re a shady dataminer guy and you responded to both my tweets while not following so I thought you might know what\u2019s going if it\u2019s malicious,\u201d he asked the leaker. When the leaker responded that he should ask Respawn developer \u2018Hideouts\u2019, HisWattson responded \u201cI hate hideouts too and I want to clown him on Twitter.\u201d HisWattson responded to confirm the messages were real, and doubled down on his comments. \u201cAll of what I said is public information. I hate EA. I hate hideouts (but I usually only go after him specifically when he says something first).\u201d It also appears that the hacker\/leaker admits to being responsible for, or having knowledge of, the attacks against HisWattson\u2019s matches. Former Apex Legends pro Snip3down slammed HisWattson for the messages. \u201cGoing out of your way to reach out to a known cheater, asking him to help you to \u2018mutually benefit\u2019 by fueling your dislike towards EA and a specific member of their team specifically to flame them publicly is 100% out of pocket.\u201d TSM member Albralelie said HisWattson was \u201cspeed running a ban from EA sanctioned events.\u201d \u201cYou seriously need to start thinking through what you\u2019re doing man.\u201d EA, Respawn, and Hideouts himself have not responded to the leaked messages or response from HisWattson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends pro HisWattson under fire over leaked messages to hacker and \u201chating\u201d Respawn dev ALGSOne of the top Apex Legends pro players and streamers, Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin, has come under scrutiny from the community after a series of leaked messages he sent to a notorious hacker and leaker. HisWattson was signed to Furia\u2019s professional […]<\/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-16201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201","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=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}