Over the past few days, players of "Among Us" have regularly encountered hacks that fill the lobby with bots that send the same message repeatedly, leaving players in a black room to despawn everything and eventually disconnect from the game. The messages have various versions of similar text, typically telling players to subscribe to the hacker's YouTube channel, "or we will kill your device," followed by a link to their Discord or Twitter, "Trump 2020" and signs it.

Developer Innersloth pushed an emergency server update to address the issue and advised players to "play private games or with someone you trust!!!" He advised. People continued to see hacks, this time with messages like "You're mad I'm back" and "Paid by Putin from Russia." A second round of modifications followed, but the repartee is likely to continue.

Eurogamer and Kotaku contacted the hackers in question, who told Eurogamer that they designed and sold cheats in the game, claiming to have affected 1.5 million matches and considering this a "publicity stunt."

When interviewed by Kotaku they said, "The anger and hatred makes us laugh," they said, as if they were mere trolls. If you care about a game and are going to spam some random guy on the Internet into hating you because you can't play it for three minutes, that's stupid."

The hacker was subsequently Doxed and his name and address published on Twitter.

Over the past week, more than 400,000 people watched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play "Among Us" on Twitch.