Respawn takes swift action against hackers targeting ImperialHal, other pros’ Apex accounts

In the latest high-profile hacking incident to strike Apex Legends, pro players and streamers ImperialHal, Sweet, and Rogue had their EA accounts compromised on Jan. 16, with hackers using their accounts to play ranked. Today, Respawn announced it was taking action.

In response to the security breach, Respawn announced that the accounts of the three players were “temporarily banned” while they investigated how hackers got access to them, but the developer has now rolled out a security update to the game, and the affected accounts have been restored. Their post came one day after Rogue pleaded for help from the Apex team on X/Twitter, and while the situation seemed to be resolved quickly, the hackers’ actions and subsequent bans to the accounts seemed to spoil the race for rank one in the game.

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