Hack

Description

A hack in Maple Story is a something done outside of the game without legal consent to influence the game itself, and can be considered cheating. For example: The popular "Vacuum Hack" sucks, or vacuums, all or most items on the map that the character can currently pick up (items from monsters not killed by the player still within the ten-second limit are such examples) to the character. This hack enables quick withdrawing of items that would otherwise not be possible in the game.

Although hacks are most often used for cheating in the game, there is the rare occasion where someone uses a hack to crash the game's server out of malicious intent (though such incidents are decidedly rare.

Solutions

There is no way to combat hacking (hacking into the hacker's account aside) legally, other than reporting the hacker to a GM (which can only be done once a day), though defames have been a suggested method.

However, the problem with defaming the hacker