Hackers Banning Legitimate Player Accounts

Recently, a Battlelog moderator was caught hacking. The event did not got unnoticed by the community and the moderator was demoted and had their stats reset. Hackers are once again in the spotlight. As PC gamers are already aware, PunkBuster has never actually been effective since being introduced in a BF1942 patch years ago. The service has followed the series and is often placed along side community run services such as PBBans and GGC-Stream. The latter, GGC has been the focus of the latest hacker attack.

anonpbspoofer said:

Hackers are targeting GGC's system to ban legitimate Battlefield 3 players. ArtificialAiming is the group behind the latest attacks, on their forums they claim to have banned over 150 legitimate BF3 accounts and that the GGC was totally unaware of what was taking place. Many posts on Battlelog have raised awareness. The blame doesn't lay with PBBans or GGC though, GGC claims that the actual issue is with Evenbalance (PunkBuster) itself.

GGC said:

Neither PBBans or GGC are apart of DICE. The service is run on a server-to-server basis and is totally up to the server owner if they want to run a ban-stream service. The point of this service and others is to database known hackers, hackers trying to join a server running the stream will not be allowed to join. Hackers have overrun GGC in terms of Battlefield 3 with a simple command line, but it appears as GGC is taking the necessary steps to reverse the bans and has halted all bans since the 24th.