Overview

• The complaint was filed June 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against Ediz Atas—known as Sincey Cheats and Vanta Cheats—and five unnamed defendants accused of reselling the software.
• Epic alleges Atas has profited from developing and selling aimbot software for Fortnite since at least January 2023 in breach of its end-user license agreement.
• Since February 2022 Epic has banned tens of thousands of accounts for using the cheat tools, including more than 15,000 in the United States.
• The lawsuit claims Atas impersonated Epic employees by sending spoof emails to YouTube’s copyright agent in an effort to reverse DMCA takedown notices on cheat demonstration videos.
• Epic is seeking compensatory and statutory damages for lost profits, plus attorney’s fees and other legal costs linked to the alleged cheating scheme.