Activision remove Call of Duty: WWII from Xbox Store after PC players were being hacked

Last week, reports surfaced from Call of Duty: WWII PC players that an exploit existed that allowed hackers to infiltrate player PCs mid-game and take control of them.

Some players who were experiencing this problem reported hackers taking control of their PC and opening up pornographic videos and even Notepad with a message informing them they have been hacked and need to contact some named users about the hack. Players who noticed this pointed to a Remote Command Execution (RCE) exploit, which, for those unfamiliar, enables a malicious actor to execute code on a target device. Essentially, RCE exploits mean a bad actor can install malware, viruses, or even harvest data from the target PC.

Reports of Call of Duty: WWII being vulnerable to an RCE exploit increased substantially after it was added to Game Pass, presumably due to the number of people it became readily available to, a small portion of whom would have taken advantage of the RCE exploit. Now, Activision has responded by taking Call of Duty: WWII offline, with TechCrunch reporting that an individual with knowledge of the topic said Activision took the game offline due to the reports of hacking while it fixes the issue.

Activision has not publicly acknowledged the issue or issued a statement regarding the purported hacking situation.