Cheats in Destiny 2 ruin the PvP for honest players. However, an ongoing lawsuit has revealed that even the cheaters are being deceived and spied on. We will tell you what sensitive data a hacker working for Bungie has discovered.
This is the cheat procedure in question: In June 2022, Bungie obtained a judgment in their favor amounting to 12.4 million euros due to copyright infringement against several defendants. They were involved in the development and provision of the Destiny 2 cheating software “Wallhax”.
At that time, the company Elite Boss Tech and its owner admitted that their software violates both the circumvention of technical measures against Bungie’s DMCA and applicable copyright law. However, this case was not yet settled, as the defendants had to hand over documents to Bungie that identified further parties involved.
As Torrentfreak reported, Bungie’s fight against cheaters has now extended across 4 continents and aims to rigorously bring all involved parties to court.
- The chief Wallhax developer Patrick Schaufuss from Germany has already been charged.
- Additionally, another Wallhax developer named Daniel Larsen based in Denmark.
- With the default judgment, Anthony “Rulezzgame” Robinson from Germany and several defendants from the Netherlands, San Jose USA, Sichuan, Shanghai, Beijing, Denmark, and Portugal were also targeted because of the new documents.
If there was any doubt about Bungie’s unyielding determination against cheaters, a deluge of new lawsuits in recent days has cleared it up once and for all. Bungie’s top lawyer Don McGowan’s statement is stern: “Anyone who is foolish enough to voluntarily identify as a defendant and attack the Bungie community can expect serious consequences.”
Cheat software used hacks to spy on its users
Documents revealed highly sensitive details: The documents handed over by the cheat manufacturer “Wallhax” were transferred to Steven Gurtis by Bungie. He is an ethical hacker, expert in video game cheats, and works for “Unit 221B”. This is a company specializing in cybercrime and hacks. He is also a Destiny 2 player with over 2,200 hours of recorded gameplay time.
Gurtis was able to identify additional users of the cheats from the documents. He also found highly sensitive details in “only 20,868 entries” of the “Wallhax logging function” that cheat users should be made aware of sooner rather than later.
Other top shooters have also been suffering from hacks and cheats for years:
Cheats are a security risk for players and PCs: From the data and documents that Unit 221B analyzed for Bungie, it is clear that the cheat software not only resulted in many kills for its users. It also meticulously recorded the PCs of the cheaters and was specifically designed to breach private data areas.
- A log entry refers to a browser tab named “patientportal.mhsgenesis.health.mil login”, another is titled “MHS GENESIS Patient Portal – COVID-19 Results”.
In this regard, Steven Gurtis stated:
MHS Genesis is the patient portal for the United States Department of Defense. I believe these log entries represent the logging of browser windows containing MHS Genesis patient portal sessions, including health information. Based on this information, it appears that the Wallhax cheat software scanned the PCs of the active military or the Department of Defense and recorded data from them. Some of the logged processes are not standalone applications but are browser tabs that the user had open on their computer.
explains Steven Gurtis regarding his investigative findings (torrentfreak.com)
From the text of the statement that has not been redacted, there is no indication that logging data from military personnel was an explicit goal of the cheats. However, it once again shows that one should never trust scammers.
- On one hand, Bungie’s security measures were circumvented to ensure that cheat users continued to have access to Destiny 2 and could effortlessly achieve victories against other Guardians who are relying not on their own skills, but on the technology of the cheat software.
- Furthermore, Wallhax served the purpose of efficiently intruding into the private data of its users and collecting as much valuable information as possible.
Whether and what the cheat manufacturer planned to do with this information is still unknown. But that is unlikely to offer much comfort to the users of the software.
What do you think of the investigations and the presented information? Would you have expected such “spying” on this scale in illegal cheat software? Or do you find it absolutely fair that cheat users have now been caught out? Feel free to leave us a comment.
According to Bungie’s lawyer, potential cheaters and haters have been tolerated for far too long. Therefore, Bungie is making many “strategic moves” to sue every approach and clue about cheaters in Destiny 2:
