“It is not safe to play WW2 on PC in 2025,” popular CoD content creator BAMS said on X (formerly Twitter). In an accompanying screenshot, they revealed an alleged hacker copied their gamertag, revealed their IP address in the game’s chat, and then struck them offline.
BAMS is far from the only example. In other instances, players have had their PC’s remotely taken over. This has led to notepad pop-ups in the middle of matches, and in some cases, even explicit material being pulled up on players’ monitors.
