How hackers broke Pokémon Go’s anti-cheat technology in four days

When we first wrote about the world of automated Pokémon Go-playing “bot” programs a few weeks ago, we predicted a brewing technological war. Developer Niantic was inevitably going to deploy cheat-detection technology, and hackers would subsequently work to break through that detection. Last week, we saw the first battle in that war, and so far it seems like the hackers are winning handily.