First time ever seeing this message pop up in game

So to give a little back story I have been playing since OW1-beta, so yes a long time. I have probably sunk over 1000 competitive games in at least. Well today I got a message I have never seen before.

I was in a competitive game and we were winning, and all of a sudden the screen goes black and a message pops up and reads: The game has been stopped due to auto-cheat detecting a player using cheating software" or something to that effect. It read that I would not be penalized and receive either a win or loss, but that I could Reque without pause.

I tried to think of who it might be that was using it but I actually had the highest score, just a good lucky game on junk so I was pumpin, but I have no idea what player it was, if they were on my team or the enemy.

But here is the real question, so what happens when that player receives a ban? If it is indeed a full ban, how does that work? Couldn’t the player just create a new b-net account and play again as it’s free? Or is there some kind of IP ban in the order? If someone could clarify this for me, I’d appreciate it.

Kind of bumbed it happened in that game too, really thought we were going to win it lol…

yes - but you would anything associated with the banned account

no, they do not IP ban nor do they hardware ban

So, they could just keep creating new accounts, hack - get banned, immediately create a new account and install the hack ware again and just continue on? That’s insane, I know Blizzard does IP ban in WoW, they really don’t for OW?

IP banning will never be a good solution because plenty of people share an IP.