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Among Us hit with hack promoting Trump and threatening players [slashgear.com]:

Hello everyone,
We're are super duper aware of the current hacking issue and we're looking into it. We will be pushing out an emergency server update so people who are in game will get kicked from games. Please play private games or with people that you trust!!! Bare with us!! 😰

— InnerSloth (@InnerslothDevs) October 23, 2020 [twitter.com]

News of the hack surfaced on social media, as these things tend to do, with players sharing screenshots of the chat messages on Reddit and Twitter. The hacked chat points users toward a YouTube account and Discord server listed as belonging to an “Eris Loris” alongside threats like “I blow up your phone” and “I hack your device.”

The folks over at Kotakugot in touch with [kotaku.com] the hacker who, it seems, was only interested in spamming people using bots. The hacker says he found the hacking campaign “funny” due, in part, to the “anger and hatred” from players. Likewise, Loris described himself as a Trump supporter, explaining “TRUMP 2020” message some players have seen.

InnerSloth developer Forest Willard tweeted that he was rolling out a server update using a “faster method” than previously used, warning that it would impact more players and that some of them may get kicked from games. Willard advised players to think of this update as emergency maintenance, also stating:

Also worth nothing that the reason I didn't roll this update out sooner is that I was afraid of false positives:

You totally might see the game think you're hacking when you're not. I've done my best to find this kind of bug, but my hand is forced this time.

— Forest (@forte_bass) October 23, 2020 [twitter.com]

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