The hacker, who goes by Vizor, tells TechCrunch that they exploited a bug in the popular game’s anti-cheat software for months.

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    15 days ago

    Had that happen once on a game. Guy was exploiting a bug for free currency, selling his service to add money to peoples accounts. Studio started banning people purchasing, Exploiter started giving away money to vast swaths of people.

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    Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game.

    That is so fucking stupid.