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Valve bans over 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters

12:55 PM February 23, 2023
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Dota 2 developer and publisher Valve recently announced the banning of over 40,000 accounts for using third-party software to cheat in Dota 2. “Today, we permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were using third-party software to cheat in Dota over the last few weeks,” wrote Valve in a blog post published yesterday, February 22, 2023.

The developers added a “honeypot”, a section of data that could not be read during gameplay and could only be read by third-party cheatware. This allowed the team to determine which accounts have been using cheats, and in turn, use that information to ban their accounts. 

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“Each of the accounts banned today read from this “secret” area in the client, giving us extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved,” said Valve.

Valve warns that future attempts to cheat will endanger your account for banning. The bans are permanent, and banned accounts will be barred from all Valve-sponsored events. The ban also extends to professional players, regardless of status.

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