PUBG Corp has announced that 15 major hackers have been arrested, and surprise surprise, they’re all in China.

If you’re as rabid a PUBG player as some of us in TheGamer office, then you're probably well aware that PUBG has, let's say, a bit of a hacker problem. If you play the game even casually then you've likely met at least one hacker already, and with every update the problem just seems to keep getting worse.

And PUBG Corp knows exactly where those hackers are coming from: China. It's become such a widely accepted fact that nearly all of PUBG’s cheaters come from China that even Dell is marketing their laptops using Chinese PUBG hacks to better appeal to their Chinese audience.

A common refrain on the PUBG patch notes page has been “region lock China" for the past several months.

But PUBG Corp hasn’t region locked China, and in fact seemed to be dragging their feet on the issue of rampant cheating. The problem for them is that a sizeable chunk of the player base--and thus income--comes from China, so doing anything drastic would be like poking the dragon, so to speak.

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But it looks like PUBG Corp has worked out something with Chinese authorities, since 15 of the more prominent hackers were arrested and collectively fined $5.1 million, according to the company.

"15 major suspects including ‘OMG’, ‘FL’, ‘火狐’, ‘须弥’, and ‘炎黄’ were arrested for developing hack programs, hosting marketplaces for hack programs, and brokering transactions,” the company said in a statement. “Currently, the suspects have been fined approximately 30 million RNB ($5.1 million USD). Other suspects related to this case are still being investigated.

Along with the fact the hacks were against the game’s terms of service, and hence illegal, it turns out many of those hackers included malicious code in their cheating software. “Some hack programs that are being distributed through the internet includes a Huigezi Trojan horse virus. It was proven that hack developers used this virus to control users’ PC, scan their data, and extract information illegally.”

Although the 15 arrests are an encouraging sign, the problem of cheating in PUBG is so rampant that there may need to be many more arrests before cheating falls to a reasonable level.

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