Apex Legends An Update from the Anti Cheat Team Notes (21st May 2026)

Season 28 ban numbers are in, and Respawn's anti-cheat team has posted a full breakdown on the Steam Community page covering everything from hardware spoofers to XIM adapters.

Across all platforms for the entirety of Season 28 (February 10 to May 5), the team issued 139,697 bans and stripped 7,912,251 RP from accounts confirmed to be cheating. The headline figure is a 4.1% match infection rate, which the team says is the lowest Apex has ever recorded. That's a number that actually means something to ranked players who've been complaining about lobby integrity for years. On the competitive side, 547 players were denied entry into ALGS tournaments, which tells you the problem at that level was far from trivial.

Specific detection categories include 4,290 DMA bans, 7,136 HWID spoofer bans, 10,658 automatic hardware detection bans, and 3,865 XIM/Titan bans. Respawn says more detection updates are in the works for Season 29. The complete notes are below.