Apex Legends hackers give pros aimbot & wallhacks in ALGS match
Apex Legends pros were unknowingly granted hacks by cheaters in the middle of the ALGS match, with Phillip "ImperialHal" Dosen and Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose both being affected.
18th Mar 2024 10:35
Images via Respawn Entertainment
Apex Legends hackers give pros aimbot & wallhacks in ALGS match
Apex Legends pros were unknowingly granted hacks by cheaters in the middle of the ALGS match, with Phillip "ImperialHal" Dosen and Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose both being affected.
18th Mar 2024 10:35
Images via Respawn Entertainment
It's no secret that bad actors using third-party software have become a major problem in Apex Legends, especially in pubs and the upper echelons of Ranked.
Well, it's not just standard matches on PC and console that are now being plagued with hacks, believe it or not, it's the ALGS as well.
However, this isn't your typical case of a player being caught using cheats, as a hacker actually managed to enable third-party software for certain pros without their permission.
This resulted in TSM's Phillip "ImperialHal" Dosen having an aimbot and DarkZero's Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose getting access to wallhacks in the middle of an ALGS match.
Apex Legends cheaters give pros hacks in the middle of ALGS
Yes, you read that right: a hacker managed to enable third-party software for specific pros in the middle of an ALGS match. This began with Genburten, who was randomly granted access to wallhacks on Storm Point, allowing him to see every other squad's position on the map.
It didn't take Gen long to realise, and he instantly left the game, clearly frustrated and extremely confused with what was going on.
Another victim of the hackers was ImperialHal, who was granted aimbot in the middle of a skirmish. The CEO realised this after beaming an opponent, and while his teammates encouraged him to leave the game, Hal just suggested that he wouldn't shoot.
Just to make the situation even more difficult, Hal's aimbot seemed to randomly switch on and off, making it impossible for him to know when it was enabled or whether to carry on with the match. These games have now been abandoned and a statement has been released about the Regional Finals.
ALGS Regional Finals suspended due to cheating incident
Taking to Twitter on March 18, PlayApexEsports announced that the "competitive integrity" of the series had been compromised and it made the decision to "postpone the NA finals."
While this is a devastating blow to the ALGS, it feels like this step had to be taken until it figured out how the hackers managed to cause so much chaos. There's been a lot of speculation about how the cheaters did it, including the use of remote code execution, but nothing has been confirmed just yet.
Taking things one step further, cyber security account LogicalSolutions suggested that Apex Legends has a major security flaw and advised gamers to uninstall until EA comments. That might seem extreme, but if hackers were able to get into something as supposedly airtight as the ALGS, it's a logical concern.
Either way, this is an unprecedented moment in Apex esports and has left a lot of fans concerned about the integrity of future events.
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Alex Garton
Alex is a Senior Writer at GGRecon. With a BA (Hons) in English, he has previously written for Dexerto & Gfinity. Specialising in Call of Duty & Apex Legends, he loves (attempting) to improve his aim in competitive shooters and will always make time for a single-player RPG.
