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Hackers Attacked The "Fallout 76" Servers Taking Player's Inventory

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:40:53 -0600

by Gavin Sheehan

Last updated Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:48:20 -0600

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Today in hacking-because-they-can news, it appears a few hackers attacked public servers for Fallout 76 and became a cyber Grinch. The story is coming from the game's Reddit forums, in which several players have noted that their accounts have been cleaned out of items within their inventory. Which promoted a post from one of the Overseers, letting players know to avoid public servers.

As many of you might know, a recent hack has been developed for Fallout 76 on PC that gives hackers the ability to steal items out of your inventory. Your caps, scrip, access to various locations and stash box/scrap box items are safe. Your weapons and armor, and any other inventory items are not safe.

Edit to add: this is unrelated to person-to-person trading, which is safe. The stealing is done through a "remote" hack, which merely requires the hacker to be in your vicinity (within render distance).

Since there is no way of knowing what player is using the hack, the only way to avoid it, is to not play on a public server. If you or friends of yours have a Fallout 1st subscription, you might want to stick to playing on a private server for a while. If you do play on a public server, it might be beneficial to store your best weapons and armor. (Or maybe switch to that lower level character you've got lined up and don't really care about that much yet.)

Shortly after the post went live, another contributor noted that Bethesda's own customer support has been alerting people they are unable to restore lost items. So basically, if you take the risk and play on a public server, you may lose everything you have. We'll keep an eye on this and see how it develops, but we're guessing the hack may go through the holiday, which is some poor timing.

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