Arrest and $5.1 million fine — this is how the Chinese police are fighting the distributors of cheat programs for the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUND. On April 25, Chinese authorities detained 15 people on suspicion of creating and selling hacking programs for a popular online action movie.
This was reported by the developers of PUBG from Bluehole Studios on Steam.
According to Bluehole, the police have brought to justice hackers known in the gaming community under the nicknames “OMG”, “FL”, “火狐”, “须弥” and “炎黄” for the development and implementation of cheat programs.
Other detainees are still under investigation.
Part of the hacker software contained malicious code that infected users’ computers and stole their personal data.
Bluehole vs cheaters
PUBG developers have been actively fighting hackers since the end of last year, when the game faced a large influx of cheaters, a significant number of which were Chinese players.
Hackers have organized a whole business advertising programs to gain an unfair advantage right in the game.
In February 2018, the anti-multiplayer cheating service BattlEye announced the blocking of 2.5 million PUBG accounts, with over 1 million bans issued only in the previous month.
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