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Ali Jones

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 online services suffer outages in apparent DDoS attack over GTA Online's new anti-cheat tech

Lester sitting at a computer in some artwork for GTA Online.

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2's online services have recently suffered outages due to DDoS attacks in apparent retaliation to Rockstar's new anti-cheat efforts.

Last week, Rockstar introduced Battle-Eye anti-cheat to GTA Online to bolster its own fair-play tools. While many might have thought the prevalence of cheating within GTA Online meant that introduction was well overdue, the extra restrictions spelled bad news for modders and those on older or more limited hardware. And it seems that someone decided to bite back.

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