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CookedBananas Aug 2, 2021 @ 1:12pm
Hacked steam account
A couple of weeks ago my steam account was hacked. During this period the person in possession of my account somehow got me banned off of Arma 3. I don't know how "I" was banned but I don't know what to do. I would be fine with it but now I realized that I cant play on any official Rust servers. Yes I am very confused too just looking for some people to help out.
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Originally posted by RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy):
Originally posted by Cookedbananas:
Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:


Your ban is from battleeye. Click on Settings then account and you can see or open a support ticket.


How do I know? That red smear on your account that says Game Ban, thats from a non VAC protected game where a cheat was detected by the anti cheat or a developer directly.

Ban from a server wont show up on your profile. Otherwise like 75% of all steam users would have a ban lol.


But that ban doesnt ever go away once issued, unless you have proof that the anti cheat made a mistake, which is very very very rare. But does happen. In your case, unlikely, since you claimed your account was hacked. My advise dont go clicking those csgo sites you like so much. 99% of them are designed to steal your info.
Hey man, thanks for understanding. It's sucks that I was banned from a game I enjoyed playing without hacks. I have contacted batleye multiple times but the chance they will receive and unban me is very low. I will continue researching and see what I can do. Thanks again man 👍


NP man. Truth is 99% of steam users sees a ban and will automatically think you cheated. because anti cheats cant possibly be wrong, right? Truth is, anti cheats are most likely a good 99% accurate. There are only a handful of times when a person banned is actually innocent and even less chance that they get their ban reversed.

Steams personal policy is account security is each persons responsibility, so even the people who got hacked(your profile used to have a CSGO website username and I personally know those sites are often behind account hacking.


Sadly of all the people who cheat, about 90%(random number cause I like numbers :) ) claim they are innocent. So most steam users wont believe it. I too used to doubt it.

Then I got hit with a ban. I posted. I was called cheater cheater. I tried twitter, reddit, email. Nobody would hear me out.

Then I played my Trump Card. shared the video I uploaded in support tickets and I had my ban removed within a week. But like I said, if I hadnt had my video recorded and uploaded as an unlisted video the same day, I would have never been unbanned.


So to me, bans are not nearly as fool proof as people think. More so, once you get a game ban, this community acts as a lynch mod. Sadly, it is unlikely that red stain will be removed. Not without amble proof.
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Silence Aug 2, 2021 @ 1:14pm 
battleye or server?
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Blax Aug 2, 2021 @ 1:15pm 
why would some one hack your account just to get you banned from Arma
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AAB_EAGLE Aug 2, 2021 @ 1:21pm 
unless you have some serious proof of a hacker getting access into your account and banning you this ban will most likely never be overturned.Contact Battle Eye support i guess
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CW2 P. Larkins Aug 2, 2021 @ 2:21pm 
Originally posted by AAB_EAGLE:
unless you have some serious proof of a hacker getting access into your account and banning you this ban will most likely never be overturned.Contact Battle Eye support i guess

what he said, and even if i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt BattleEye is glorified scamware since they almost never respond to email inquiries, so even if you have genuine evidence they might just ignore you and you never get the ban lifted. Give it a shot though, contact BattleEye directly.
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Reodhadh Aug 2, 2021 @ 2:24pm 
8.7h of game time with a dev ban. get real kid, quit trying to use cheat software you found on google.
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Poet Aug 2, 2021 @ 3:05pm 
yeah sure you were hacked :steammocking:
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Elitch Aug 2, 2021 @ 10:06pm 
I'll take, "Things Script Kiddies Say", for $400, Alex.
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Bergman Aug 2, 2021 @ 11:28pm 
Originally posted by Cookedbananas:
My steam account was hacked and I was banned off of Arma. Anyone know how to get this ban lifted?
Make a new account and try again.
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Aleks Aug 3, 2021 @ 5:48am 
based hacker
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Glizzy Overdrive Aug 3, 2021 @ 6:41am 
imagine walling and aimbotting to counter the AI aimbot
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RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy) Aug 3, 2021 @ 6:25pm 
I was banned on Arma 3 by battleeye but I thank the gaming gods, had video proof and was able to get my ban lifted, but if I hadnt had my shadowplay setup to record the last 10 minutes of gameplay I'd have a red stain on my profile to this day.

Not sure how you can reverse it, account security is your responsibility.
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Shillelagh Aug 8, 2021 @ 10:54am 
Originally posted by Jason R. 236:
based hacker
*Script kiddie
Doesn't hack and or write their own programs.
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CookedBananas Aug 9, 2021 @ 12:14am 
Originally posted by Reodhadh:
8.7h of game time with a dev ban. get real kid, quit trying to use cheat software you found on google.
I don't hack
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Bergman Aug 9, 2021 @ 12:22am 
Originally posted by Cookedbananas:
Originally posted by Hadrian:
I'll take, "Things Script Kiddies Say", for $400, Alex.
If I would hack a game i would make a new account. I don't hack
Ofc not, it's called "cheating" not "hacking"
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Kuollut Aug 9, 2021 @ 2:55am 
y'all talking about cheating and hacking... but ever heard about *illegitimate DLCs*? in my opinion, that's 90% why he got banned.

if you look at his profile and see his hours, he has like below 10 played on steam, and the topic was made on 2 August. let's say he basically bought the game, played a bit then he copy-pasted some fishy stuff then tried to connect to a battleye protected server and got banned because of the that.

why tho? why would you risk your entire Steam account for a stupid thing like that, atleast be honest what you did, either you cheated or tried that method.
there are plenty of mods thanks to this awesome community, and this is basically Arma 3, mods and operations, you don't even need the DLCs (some).

I bought the game on 5 August and I have almost 50 hours on it, 80% played alone with the Editor and the rest of it with my friends. I bought the Standard edition which came with Zeus and Malden, and i'm fine with that :)
Last edited by Kuollut; Aug 9, 2021 @ 3:08am
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