Epic Games continues war against Fortnite cheaters, files lawsuit against another cheat developer

Epic Games has announced publically it has revenge a suit against an individual it alleges has developed and sold cheats for Fortnite.

This latest task successful Epic Game's ongoing warfare against those who create, sell, and usage cheats was announced via the company's ain Twitter account. There, nan institution posted:

"We revenge a caller suit against an individual who developed and sold cheating package that helped players spot done walls and car aim. We're besides going aft group who helped waste this software. Creating and trading package to thief others cheat is against nan rules and we'll support fighting to support it retired of Fortnite."

According to Polygon, nan suit has been revenge successful nan U.S. District Court for nan eastbound territory of North Carolina wherever nan institution is headquartered. It alleges Ediz Atas, besides known arsenic Sincey Cheats and Vanta Chearts, has been making and trading cheats since "at slightest January 2023".

Epic alleges successful nan suit that aft DMCA takedowns were issued to YouTube videos featuring these cheats, "Sincey Cheats sent aggregate emails to YouTube's designated copyright supplier impersonating an Epic worker and falsely claiming that Epic wanted to 'formally reverse [its] declare of copyright infringement'" by utilizing clone Epic Games email addresses.

Epic besides claims its has issued tens of thousands of bans against Fortnite accounts that utilized cheats from Sincey Cheats since 2022, including complete 15,000 bans connected US-based Fortnite accounts.

The suit is besides asking for compensation for damages from 5 unnamed individuals who distributed these cheats complete platforms for illustration Discord and Telegram. The magnitude is unknown.

In lawsuit you didn't know, Epic Games has proven particularly litigious erstwhile it comes to Fortnite cheaters. In 2022 Epic forced a cheat creator to salary up successful Australian tribunal pursuing a ineligible victory, donating nan winnings to charity.

Epic besides sued a subordinate who utilized cheats during a monolithic multi-million dollar tournament to springiness backmost immoderate prize money they won, and make a cathartic nationalist apology to boot!

The institution is not unsocial successful its struggle against cheats. Activision has besides been fighting against cheats, winning £11.3m successful tribunal against a Call of Duty cheat maker. Bungie has been successful those trenches too, winning a $4.4m suit against Destiny cheat seller Aimjunkies.