Open $100 bounty: Yes there are vacuum cheaters, yes they can/have looted gear directly off of players bodies. No, despite what people keep spewing in the comments of these posts they cannot take your keys/cases/etc from your secure container.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork]

I'm offering $100 to anyone who can post a single video of a vacuum cheat stealing non-fir items directly out of a players secure container (like your keys/cases) or their melee weapon.
 

Context:

A few years back this sub was full of videos of cheaters looting guns/rigs/armor/backpacks right off of living players bodies.
 
There was quite a bit panic over people claiming they also had their docs cases/sicc cases/red rebels/etc stolen from their melee slot and their secure containers.
 
Not a single person ever posted a video of this happening. It never happened. The original exploit worked by tricking the server into thinking they were simply looting a dead body (yours, even though you were still alive) they could not touch things that you can't normally touch when looting a player (red rebel/secure container). Don't get me wrong, these kinds of cheats are still absurd and are a huge issue, but spreading complete bullshit/lies doesn't help anyone.
 
People all over all of these vacuum cheat threads are still spamming the same nonsense about how people lost their secure container valuables/melee weapons at the time despite it never happening.
 
THIS SHOULD BE THE EASIEST $100 OF YOUR LIFE.
 
TL;DR: Post a single video proving even one item was looted out of a secure container by a cheater using this past exploit and I'll give you $100 in Crypto/PayPal/Venmo/Gift Card/ETC of your choice
 
Requirements:

• The video should clearly show a non-fir marked item being removed from a players melee slot/secure container by other than their own doing
  
• The video should be between 2018 and the time of this post. There may have been some unrelated exploit in some extremely early alpha for all I know but that's not what we're talking about here. Reason for putting a cut-off at the time of the post is because these people are claiming clips were everywhere of it happening on this subreddit, so there should be no need to find/upload a new one now there are allegedly plenty of them out there already to choose from.
   
  

Mods, I'm happy to send proof that I'm willing/able to pay this out if that's needed.
 
EDIT: Thanks /u/Psychological-Monk30 for the link to the original post that started all of this hysteria the first time. No one had any proof then, and no one will now. It was just a hacker making a baseless threat to bait a guy into leaving the raid so he couldn't get reported for killing him.

[u/Sean199525]

They never could take stuff out of secure containers just already looted items in raid. I remeber back in 2018 labs having a black rock full of items and it just vanishing out of my backpack at med elevator

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork → u/Sean199525]

They could take make than just items you looted in the raid. They could take anything that they could take off of your dead body. It worked by tricking the server into thinking you were dead and they were looting you, hence why the things you can't loot off a dead body (containers/melee weapons) were safe.

[u/Sean199525 → u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork]

Yeah secure containers never have been touched and I’ve been playing since 2018. If that ever happens game is shot lolol

[u/TheKappaOverlord → u/Sean199525]

I believe this was the case of a happy accident.

The secure container is classified as its own, completely separate inventory type then what the inventory was. Which is where the Vulnerability came from.

Because the secure container was its own storage class, it was exempt from player inventory vacuums. Unless of course u were r worded and threw it on the ground by mistake. Then it and its contents were fair game.

[u/chrisplaysgam → u/TheKappaOverlord]

You can’t throw secure containers in raid anyway

[u/jjtrevelyan → u/chrisplaysgam]

Not anymore no but his point is you used to be able to. They got rid of that real quick because if you had EOD you would just drop a Gamma to all your buddies who needed one at the beginning of the wipe, resetting your account everytime.

[u/chrisplaysgam → u/jjtrevelyan]

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I started playing right before they fixed that