From GameWatcher: “Apex Legends is a dedicated multiplayer title and, as such, is extremely susceptible to hacking and/or injecting malicious software by the sheer number of people who’ve logged in to try the game out. Statistically, someone is cheating, somewhere, and that’s obviously a problem.
Apex Legends Easy Anti-Cheat is the software solution EA and Respawn have opted to use in this case, and though it’s sure to stop at least some amount of hacking, it would seem that legitimate users are having problems with it as well. Here’s what we know.”
Source: N4G PC How to Fix Problems With Easy Anti-Cheat in Apex Legends?