Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat developer for selling wallhack and auto-aim tools

[Alfonso Maruccia]

Editor's take: Multiplayer gaming is about fair fights, not shortcuts. But cheaters keep buying their wins, ruining it for everyone else. Epic Games is cracking down hard because cheating isn't just unfair – it's a threat to the whole game. Sorry, losers. Cheating doesn't pay.

Epic Games recently announced a new lawsuit targeting developers of Fortnite cheating tools. The company is going after an individual who created software that lets players see through walls and use auto-aim. Epic shared the update on its ongoing battle via X, emphasizing that creating and distributing cheats violates the game's terms of service and must be stopped.

Epic filed the lawsuit in its home state of North Carolina against Ediz Atas. Known online as "Sincey Cheats" and "Vanta Cheats," Atas has developed, maintained, and sold Fortnite cheating software since January 2023. Epic said his products gave players an unfair advantage and breached Fortnite's end-user license agreement. Epic is seeking damages from Atas and his partners, along with attorney's fees and other legal costs.

🚨 An update on our fight against cheating in Fortnite

We filed a new lawsuit against an individual who developed and sold cheating software that helped players see through walls and auto aim. We're also going after people who helped sell this software.

Creating and selling…

– Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) June 10, 2025

The company claims that the cheating software bypasses its anti-cheat system and undermines Fortnite's long-term business. Honest players forced to compete against cheaters are more likely to stop playing and buying in-game content, causing damages and losses to the company.

Atas went to extreme lengths to profit from his cheating business. He even tried to block Epic's efforts to remove videos promoting the software, posing as an Epic representative in emails to YouTube in an attempt to reverse DMCA takedown requests. According to the lawsuit, his actions forced Epic to issue tens of thousands of Fortnite bans since 2022 – over 15,000 of them in the US alone.

Atas didn't act alone. According to the lawsuit, at least five partners helped manage the business, selling Sincey Cheats and Vanta Cheats software to Fortnite players through various websites and encrypted messaging platforms like Discord and Telegram.

Epic has recently intensified its legal fight against Fortnite cheaters, pursuing not just software developers but also esports players caught using cheats. The company has forced some players to publicly apologize and return prize money, sending a clear message: cheaters don't get paid – at least not when Epic is involved.

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Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat developer for selling wallhack and auto-aim tools

 

[m4a4]

I fully support this for cheats that impact other customers (aka in multiplayer games). Too bad it won't impact it much.

 

[Dreadcthulhu]

Is the person they are suing even in the United States? If so, that is incredibly dumb of them to sell that sort of thing in a place were the law can reach you.

 

[NumberNine]

All that money, all that privacy lost, and EAC still can't get the job done it seems.

 

[toooooot]

These people are the worst. The amount of damage they do to a game's player base is tremendous.
In a sense, they are as evil as those hack and destroy data of gaming companies.
But I hope that the advances in AI can decrease the ability to cheat in games.

 

[pgcharlie]

Didn't EA sports tried that with EngineOwning and failed?

 

[The Talking Tech]

As a huge advocate for cheat codes for Offline Only gameplay, I do not accept cheat codes for online use.

With that said cheat codes enhances the gaming experience of gaming, as most people would agree that infinite powers in a fantasy game and infinite ammunition in shooters makes gaming far more fun than to constantly struggle against over power characters.

 

[human7]

As a huge advocate for cheat codes for Offline Only gameplay, I do not accept cheat codes for online use.

With that said cheat codes enhances the gaming experience of gaming, as most people would agree that infinite powers in a fantasy game and infinite ammunition in shooters makes gaming far more fun than to constantly struggle against over power characters.

I especially accept them (usually in the form of mods or trainers) for single player games where there is paid DLC or microtransactions to achieve the same effect.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

If you make a lock publicly accessible, people will line up to try and open it.

 

[Knot Schure]

Nobody is getting it right with the cheaters so far.

It is very simple. Do the following:

1. Payment ID black listing. Once a payment method is associated with a cheaters account. That payment method is good no more. Be it the card details or PayPal, those accounts should be toast.

2. Better device fingerprinting - combine dozens of metrics, CPU / GPU serials, bios hashes, GUIDs. Ban the machine that matches the cheater.

3. Delayed bans - insta-bans give cheaters 'feedback'. Let them play for a random amount of days or weeks even, then drop the hammer.

If it is detected that all the above haven't worked, then just send a cpu halt command. Each time they login, the machine halts if (x) number of cheat signatures are matched.

 

[Tran Bronstein]

I truly can't think of anything more pathetic than an online multiplayer games cheater. It's not an athletic contest, there's no actual prize or reward to be gained (I'm not talking pro e-sports, just online playing), it ruins the game for everyone else, and because it's played by anonymous online users, there's nobody to even acknowledge your "victory." There is quite literally no benefit to doing it. Yet it's an entire cottage industry unto itself.

I do agree with Fortnite's business stance here. It literally costs the company millions in lost revenue to honest players giving up on the game and forcing them to spend what should rightfully be their profit on combatting cheaters in an arms race. I personally would put those responsible in jail because when you tally up the economic losses, then it becomes an actual crime.