Re: ALGS regional finals suspended due to hacking

I doubt they're going to stay silent about this issue, at least not until they've got it under control.

Usually rules about being silent regarding anything security for companies is to practice security through obscurity.

Though this issue has grown quite large, as it has affected ALGS, and is seeding panic throughout the community as an RCE Vuln can be quite the issue.

They should issue a statement at a proper time, to clear up misconceptions and to calm the community down, though as with any communication strategy, it's usually not best to issue any statements too early.

If they don't issue a statement then that would be quite problematic, so I think they will do it, but it'll probably take a while.

With the videos that show pro players being hunted down by squads of hijacked accounts (see Mande's encounter for instance) I think that the best course of action is either to uninstall Apex or not to start it up at all. While the likelihood of being specifically targeted and having your system compromised might be low, there's always a possibility that your Apex account might be hacked and recruited into the "bot army". If that happens, given the difficulties we have seen of people appealing false bans and account hijacking, it might be a goodbye to your account.

Better safe than sorry for the time being. There are plenty of other games to play.

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@SunlessMeridian wrote:

  If that happens, given the difficulties we have seen of people appealing false bans and account hijacking, it might be a goodbye to your account.

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This is one of the most abysmal things.

EA really need to fix up on this. Completely unfair on players who have invested time and money into the title.

In fact it's despicable.

EA should easily be able to identify this and make whatever ammendments necessary to return the account to the player in its original state pre-hack.