'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

Last month, Activision posted that they'd "identified and disabled a workaround" within their automated anti-cheat tool, Ricochet. The language of the post is purposefully vague about what actually happened, but the studio asserts that only a "small number" of legitimate Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare III players were affected, and that those accounts have since been reinstated.

However, it wasn't long before hackers shared their side of the story—to say nothing of all the angry...