{"id":7383,"date":"2019-05-17T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:02:03","slug":"csgo-star-k0nfig-facing-fresh-allegations-of-banned-alt-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/csgo-star-k0nfig-facing-fresh-allegations-of-banned-alt-account\/","title":{"rendered":"CS:GO star k0nfig facing fresh allegations of banned alt account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian &#8220;k0nfig&#8221; Wienecke is facing allegations that he owned an alternative account which was VAC banned after a hacker gained access to his FACEIT profile.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish Counter-Strike player&#8217;s FACEIT account was infiltrated on May 15 by an unknown hacker who then posted on Discord a few words about previous allegations of a VAC ban.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO esports betting\">BEST CS:GO BETTING SITES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While there were rumours that k0nfig had suffered a prior suspension to one of his alt accounts, those stayed unconfirmed. Nonetheless, it was claimed by the <em>Dust2.dk<\/em> website that Valve knew about the banned account in 2015, but did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Valve did not have enough evidence to punish the Dane then; however, with the new information surfacing, the firm may be forced to take action.<\/p>\n<p>The OpTic Gaming star confirmed on Twitter that his FACEIT account had been hacked:<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone hacked my faceit xD<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kristian Wienecke (@k0nfigCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k0nfigCS\/status\/1128686685053698048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The hacker then claimed k0nfig used the same email and password to log in into the account in question, which previously used names such as &#8220;k0nfig&#8221; and &#8220;kR1ST1AN&#8221;. More about that can be found in a Reddit post where the hacker unravelled his findings:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" ><p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/VACsucks\/comments\/bp2c4j\/k0nfig_vac_banned_account_exposed\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">k0nfig VAC banned account exposed<\/a> from      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/VACsucks\/\">VACsucks<\/a>    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>If k0nfig is found to have had any of his accounts suspended, he could face a lifetime ban from CS:GO Majors and other high-profile tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to release an official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" title=\"Latest CS:GO news\">MORE ESPORTS NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpTic star Kristian &#8220;k0nfig&#8221; Wienecke has been accused of being VAC banned on his alt account, which could potentially affect his future play at CS:GO Majors and other events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,626,4,661,23],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-cs-go","tag-featured","tag-kristian-k0nfig-wienecke","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}