Thousands of CS: GO players caught a trap and got VAC Banned

Let’s make it straight here, nobody likes cheaters. It’s ok to hack a single-player game but when the hacking affects a larger number of players online you need to be punished. Valve had been quite firm with the VAC Bans, but what this user did was a lot smarter.

To help clean up the Counter-strike: Global Offensive community, AndroidL released a couple of multi-hack tools advertising a range of cheats like aimbots.

Those who downloaded and used the free hacks were slapped with bans – which was the point all along. Over 3,000 users are believed to have been affected.

Valve Anti Cheat does its best to detect and ban hack users anyway, but these ones were specifically designed to attract its attention. Two of the hacks allowed a grace period before blowing the whistle, while a third build immediately called the VAC po-po in.

You can read all about it on the Reddit post, where this players goes in details about what happened exactly.

CS: GO is available now on Steam for PC.