The Wastelanders expansion of Fallout 76 It has been the best thing that has happened to the Bethesda title lately. Among all the novelties that were introduced, it stood out above all the addition of NPCs in the game, something that was initially welcomed with open arms, until some players realized the misdeeds they were capable of committing.
Naturally this curious case (and so annoying) has never been intentional. Luckily it should not happen again, because Bethesda has posted a notice of what has been achieved hit the bug and make sure you have corrected it
We just released an update for Fallout 76 regarding a rare issue where NPCs could grab items from a dead player under certain circumstances. We didn't need to disconnect the game to do this and the update has already been applied on all worlds.
However, Bethesda has not mentioned anything about what will happen to the players who have been affected