No mention of whether the victims of these hacks were unbanned. You would hope they were but I also wouldn't be surprised if they weren't.
Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament
Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack. In the early hours of Monday morning, two professional Apex Legends players competing in two separate matches were forcibly given cheats on their accounts – events that …
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Monday 18th March 2024 17:51 GMT Ashentaine
>The messages didn't specify the component of the game that was allegedly exploited. The community has been debating whether it could be in the Apex Legends game client itself or in the game's built-in anti-cheat mechanism (Easy Anti-Cheat).
Given that EAC is rubbish and has been compromised multiple times for no reason other than people wanting to prove it could be done, I'd wager that's a good place to start looking.