PUBG Corp. has confirmed the arrest of 15 individuals suspected of hacking PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, as the studio continues its crackdown on the cheats and hackers who have been plaguing the game.
"We've upgraded our security measures, improved our anti-cheat solutions, and recently even added a new anti-cheat solution on top of all that," the studio wrote over on Steam. "In the meantime, we've also been continuously gathering information on hack developers (and sellers) and have been working extensively with multiple partners and judicial authorities to bring these people to justice."
To that end, the studio has confirmed that last week, on April 25, some 15 people were arrested for "developing and selling hacking/cheating programs that affect PUBG. It was confirmed that malicious code, including Trojan horse software, was included in some of these programs and was used to steal user information."
According to a report by local authorities, "the suspects have been fined approximately 30mil RNB ($5.1mil USD). Other suspects related to this case are still being investigated."
Cheating in an online game such as PUBG is bad enough, but it sounds like the Trojan software mentioned above was being used to extract information from players' computers. Here's hoping the fine mentioned above is enough to deter others from doing the same thing.