This has been happening for 3 months now.Basically if you don't have 2FA enabled there's a high (AND I REALLY MEAN HIGH) chance of your account getting hacked and get wrongfully banned. (Even manual bans from people that ban without a second thought.)Not to mention how; all these hackers appear to be chinese, that there has been a unusually high case of ban appeals, * tons of reddit posts and so on...Not even a single response from EA or respawn about whats been happening.

Hey everyone, As others have pointed out, in order to access another person's account in Apex Legends someone would have to gain access to the Steam or Origin account itself. This can happen a number of different ways, including phishing, social engineering, or login data being leaked. There haven't been any recent data leaks on our side, to my knowledge. I've personally had my Steam account compromised before, and it was my own fault. I was irresponsible and had used the same password on the account for far too long. I had also used that same password for other websites in the past. I had 2FA on my Steam account, but I disabled it when I got a new phone because I was having trouble logging in. I forgot to turn it back on, and one day I get a text from a friend because someone was on my Steam account sending him a link to a sketchy website. I'm not sure if I unknowingly entered in my password on a phishing website, or if maybe my old password was stolen from some other site, but they got in my account. We have systems and checks in place to help keep accounts secure, but those can only go so far if someone gets your login info. Don't make the same mistakes I did. Don't re-use passwords. Come up with a new one every once in a while. Don't share your account with other people, because who knows where they're typing in your login info? Also, make sure your authenticator is always active. If you turn it off, get it back up and running ASAP. /Kent

If only people would enable the 2-step security option.

I'd like to add some of the false banned accounts have been getting restored when its investigated. Consider the original ban the system doing what its designed to do and ban those cheating. Because lets face it your account was banned for cheating due to someone logging it in and cheating on it. So the system is working. Apex accounts are hacked for few reasons. The older the better the account then they are less likely to be reported for cheating over players thinking omg this dude is just amazing. Even season 1 preds accounts have been compromised as well as big streamers such as LuLu. as mentioned above there are many factors that leads to this happening. The company provides a vast amount of security options to ensure this cant happen to its users. They cant force the users to set up everything in place though. So the blame is not on the company for a user not securing their accounts when the options have been there for ages. So on one hand i do feel bad for being hacked for some people on the other hand all i can think is this could of been avoided had you took 30 seconds to set up more security.

@T732232This has everything to do with Origin and or steam. In order to access your accounts most times they would need access to your email it self to reset said password if it was reset.Another thing people dont understand is when you have been hit with a keylog or a memory injector then every single password you have on google saved is now in their hands. Some trojans so well made even malware bytes and such wont even pick it up.So when someone has been hacked its due to normally link clicking. All it takes is 1 click on the wrong link even if masked to look exactly like the site it shows. Such as someone can edit a header on their browser and lets say your into dogs. You have a special dog website you always go to. The hacker figures this out creates a special link click that directs you to the website you think your going to about the dogs. Little does this user know they just allowed them access. All they got to do is mask a site or link to something you like they know you would click on and boom they are in.

But game is free, right? Why hack accounts, if you can simply create new and cheat?I'm sure huge % of all these "my account was hacked" are just naive attempt to get unban.Reality is that many players give their account details to some unknown person, who boosts account to Diamond/Master, or unlocks some icons for money. One thing they don't think about that this person may use cheats and after a week... surprise, surprise => ban.

Love how Apex accounts are getting hacked left and right while EA does nothing.

18 Replies

Palor0
4 years ago
If only people would enable the 2-step security option.
SlivPTS
4 years ago
But game is free, right? Why hack accounts, if you can simply create new and cheat?
I'm sure huge % of all these "my account was hacked" are just naive attempt to get unban.
Reality is that many players give their account details to some unknown person, who boosts account to Diamond/Master, or unlocks some icons for money. One thing they don't think about that this person may use cheats and after a week... surprise, surprise => ban.
LaTencyBuLLyMe
4 years ago
@SlivPTS could be. i think so.
DarthValtrex
Hero+
4 years ago
@T732232 It's not being ignored.
T732232
4 years ago
"I'm sure huge % of all these "my account was hacked" are just naive attempt to get unban."
That's not true at all.
Just go to to r/Apexlegends and search for "ban" and sort by new.
Almost every post that has a picture shows the club history is set to chinese with sometimes a chinese hacker friend suddenly added to your account.
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johnmiceter
4 years ago
So its their fault your account is getting hacked ? Got you 😂
johnmiceter
4 years ago
@T732232 I'm guessing your password isn't good enough. What is a reason for someone to hack a apex accounts ?

I reckon people are just saying this because they get banned. Just make a password with a capital, numbers and a symbol, pretty hard to hack one of these.
T732232
4 years ago
Doesn't matter if my password is 20 letters long with all sorts of symbol and numbers when there has been a possible leak.
"What is a reason for someone to hack a apex accounts "
No idea how I should that know. All I know that some user found his Origin account on some chinese marketplace, so maybe money?.
SlivPTS
4 years ago
@T732232
So you believe everyone who says that his account was hacked? Yes there can be many cases where someone was hacked, but cheaters make this problem look bigger then it actually is. Cheaters are liars and first thing they usually do is search, read and comment in ban topics.

By the way, to get access to Apex account hacker must hack Origin (or Steam). Few months ago they added option to play Apex on Steam and as i understand this problem with "account was hacked" is recent, right?
Maybe there is some connection?
johnmiceter
4 years ago
@T732232 So its Origins fault not Apex's.