I was hoping this would be something like a nation state manipulating an AR app's reward locations to pick up images or audio from hacked phones. Has anyone tried that yet?
I love these gaming story. Reminds me of the EVE online stories which also have crazy espionage going on.
Click bait.
It wasn't "real world spy warfare", which makes me think of Hong Kong protests vs China. It's literally just players cheating at a massive scale in a real world game by (in some cases) stalking others and taking the game too seriously.
A good read though, if you're into AR games.