The anti-cheat makers investigated recent reports and have found no issue.

Easy Anti-Cheat woke up from their five year social media slumber to address claims that their anti-cheat solution may be responsible for the Apex Legends ALGS hacks. On March 17, two pro players were hacked live during the North American regional finals for the Apex Legends Global Series. DarkZero's Genburten and TSM's ImperialHal seemingly had wallhacks and aimbot forced upon them from someone with ill intent.

As those events happened, people ran wild with speculation on how an outside party could gain access to these players' computers during the esports event. The Internet, being what it is, suggested it could be everything from a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability being exploited, to a security flaw within Apex's servers, to the two pros actually being caught cheating with their own hacks.

For players, the most serious of these would probably be there being an RCE vulnerability, either with Apex Legends itself or with its anti-cheat solution, Easy Anti-Cheat.

On March 18, Easy Anti-Cheat took to Twitter to state that they have investigated reports suggesting an RCE vulnerability existed within their software. Easy Anti-Cheat states that they "are confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited." They continue on to say that they will still continue to work closely with partners for any follow up support.


So far, Easy Anti-Cheat is the first of any of the involved parties to issue an official response to last night's mess at the ALGS tournament. It's very likely that Respawn and EA are still busy looking into their server security still before they even consider issuing any sort of statement, if they choose to make one at all.

I also need to address some of the scary headlines I saw today concerning what happened to the Apex pros yesterday. As it currently stands, nobody in any official capacity has suggested that players "perform a clean OS reinstall." The only group that has suggested players go through with such a scorched-earth policy is a third party anti-cheat analysis Twitter account that is made up of random volunteers. This is also the same group that initially said, without proof, that there is an RCE exploit in Apex Legends or Easy Anti-Cheat.