Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft was forced to take all servers offline - players randomly lost billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins and bans or cancel |Tom's equipment

Arc Six Siege goes completely offline as unknown attackers destroy the game, giving away billions in credits and more.

Rainbow Six Siege is surrounded by criminals, Ubisoft was forced to take all servers abroad - random players receive billions of credits, high-quality skins, and bans or bans.

Rainbow Six Siege is completely offline as unknown attackers ravage the game giving away billions of credits and more.

Ubisoft has been forced to take all Rainbow Six Siege servers offline after the game was hacked by an unknown entity.The company confirmed on X around 9:10 a.m. EST on Friday, December 27th that something had happened with the title, with its service status page reporting unplanned outages across all platforms at the time of writing.While the company has yet to acknowledge what caused the outage, there are numerous reports of players receiving 2 billion R6 credits and fame, as well as developer-only skins and Glacier - one of the rarer weapon skins in the game.There are also random bans and bans, which affect everyone from regular players to high-profile accounts and streamers.

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Due to the ongoing chaos, players are advised to stay offline, especially as it appears that this is much more than just a simple hack.Instead, it seems like it's a full-blown breach because Ubisoft lost complete control over the game's backend.

While we don't yet know the extent of the damage, anyone with a Ubisoft account, especially one linked to Rainbow Six Siege, is recommended to change and update their password as a precaution.In the meantime, there's nothing we can do but wait.While there have been bigger, more damaging hacks in the past, this is one of the first cases in recent history where an apparent breach has destroyed an entire game.

The last major game hack we can remember was in 2011, when criminals attacked PSN and stole data from 77 million dollars.The online service for PS3 and PSP was released, and Sony spent more than a week to explain what happened.Steam was also the victim of a cyber attack in the same year, with hackers able to steal information from more than 35 million users.However, the opposition is not like what we see today, with the people behind them giving millions of credits and skins, and slamming banned programs as if they insulted Ubisoft with the money they have.

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JOegonsales The technical and reputational damage here is huge.Even after a repair, how do you restore trust?A rollback would anger those who get (and spent) free stuff.Not go back would destroy the game's economy.A non-win scenario.This would be a case study in life-service security failures. Santfer -

Moon 2 Oh, to be fair, no one will really be mad.Those who have 27 trillion in game coins should definitely expect them to disappear.Answer

The retreat is a win-win for everyone.Repeated fines, technical and (probably) damages are the bigger reason.-

Take what you have now and give the tokens to everyone Jogoncells said: Technology and reputation are in big trouble here.How can we restore trust even after resolution?Pulling back will anger those who got (and spent) the free stuff.

HyperMatrix Wish they did it on Battlefield 6 instead.Still banned for no reason and waiting for my response to my appeal for more than 30 days.Answer -

Amdlova pvp online games?That's a big no no... answer

Cheaters and pve players suck but pvp is madness.

The last online game I played was PVP Quake 3 when I was a thousand years old-

No one would be surprised if the "27 bajillion in premium in game money" was taken out of millions of global coins, but they might be disappointed.Those who earn 27 billion in game money really expect to lose.

The retreat is an instant win for everyone.The main issue will be the reputational, technical and (potential) penalties that will result from the breach.

Chandran2 is not worth getting into a debate about semantics.Pointing out that "people will get annoyed if they can't hold a hacked currency" is a stupid argument, but you want to put it :) Reply -

DS426 I just don't feel sorry for Ubisoft.Horrible ethics, work culture, treatment of players... you lit enough fires and were responsible for some big things burning down.answer