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Hello there! It's time to cover up the confusion that revolves around servers getting "hacked". We have seen far too often lately that people confuse actual hacking for other things, and we want that cleared up.

Starting with cracked:
Servers that are cracked and get "hacked" by players suddenly gaining OP do not actually get "hacked". Cracked servers take security risks with them, a few of those being that anyone can log in using ANY name, and anything bound to a name will be given to anyone using that name. Besides that, it's really easy getting OP. Make sure to always use login security plugins like Authme reloaded and/or to use the whitelist on cracked servers.
(Note that whitelists alone on servers won't have much effect since you will basically have the same problem but limited to whitelisted players.)

Other servers:
Servers that are not cracked have barely any chance of getting hacked. The only possible form of hacking here is hack clients such as aristois or wurst. Which you can counter using anticheat plugins, or simply getting staff.

WE DO NOT BAN PEOPLE ON THIS DISCORD SERVER THAT "HACK" ATERNOS SERVERS. YOUR SERVER IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, NOT OURS.