It may, therefore, be considered to be CheatingHacking is defined as the unauthorized use of computer and network resources. In Cabal Online, there are a number of hacks employed by a player in order to cheat. Examples of cheating in the game are to make your character jump higher than the average players, fly, have infinite HP/MP, and it can even change the character's level and amount of statistics and mesos.

A new patch is updated for the game every time, a new hack patch is created to overwrite it and thus modify that new game patch. But some advanced hacked patches do not need to be re-patched since it has a special private code which can bypass the patches each time MapleStory updates it's game. Sometimes, hacked patches result in messing up the game for the players: the enemies may start to fly or move quicker around the screen than usual. Hacking of MapleStory is an offense which carries a suspension of up to 60 days. Cheating, just like in other things in life, is very much frowned upon since it creates an unbalancing effect in the entire game play.