Last month, Activision posted that they'd "identified and disabled a workaround" within their automated anti-cheat tool, Ricochet. The language of the post is purposefully vague about what actually happened, but the studio asserts that only a "small number" of legitimate Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare III players were affected, and that those accounts have since been reinstated.
However, it wasn't long before hackers shared their side of the story—to say nothing of all the angry responses under Activision's post from players still locked out of their accounts. A hacker known as Zeebler was the first to publicly share details of the exploit, explaining how it allowed them to remotely permaban players by typing as few as two words into the lobby chat. TechCrunch has since caught up with the hacker who originally found the exploit.
