It’s been a chaotic week for hackers making disconnected with video crippled studios’ private files and using publishers’ services for their ain gain. But this time, it’s a large workplace accused of doing the hacking. A radical of Destiny 2 cheat makers are suing Bungie for hacking into 1 of their computers. They are seeking a proceedings by jury, damages, tribunal fees, and for Bungie to destruct the files that it acquired from the hacks.

AimJunkies is simply a website that sells cheating bundle for first-person shooters specified as Apex Legends, the Battlefield series, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Destiny 2. It’s owned by Phoenix Digital Group, which has been battling ongoing copyright lawsuits from Bungie since past year.

As primitively spotted by Torrent Freak, the countersuit claims that Bungie had accessed and downloaded files connected the idiosyncratic machine of suspect James May, who Bungie says is simply a third-party cheat developer, without “knowledge oregon authorization” betwixt 2019 and 2021. As proof, the defendants pointed to the Bungie Production Document that had been entered into find during the ongoing lawsuits, with record determination names that travel from May’s backstage hard drive. Kotaku reached retired to Phoenix Digital Group to inquire astir the contents of the hacked files, but did not person a reply by the clip of publication.

Phoenix Digital Group argued that Bungie utilized the accusation it obtained to “conduct further surveillance” connected the group, and cites the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act successful the lawsuit. Torrent Freak reported that the 2019 idiosyncratic statement for Destiny 2 did not supply Bungie with support to entree players’ idiosyncratic files. Kotaku reached retired to Bungie for comment, but did not person a effect by the clip of publication.

Phoenix Digital Group besides claims that an cause of Bungie purchased AimJunkies cheat bundle successful 2020. The suit states that Bungie violated AimJunkies’ presumption of work by decompiling and reverse-engineering the code.

It’s ironic that the cheat makers are utilizing Bungie’s ain tribunal filings to marque their countersuit. Just last month, Phoenix Digital Group said successful a property release: “Do not judge everything you work successful [Bungie’s] filings. In fact, bash not judge 90% of what they asseverate successful their filings.”