Hackers breach Ubisoft’s Siege servers, flood players with premium currency and bans
Ubisoft live service game Rainbow Six Siege has suffered a major breach, impacting its servers, players, marketplace, and possibly other areas. Earlier today, players of the tactical shooter began reporting massive amounts of premium currency being granted to them, while others were being randomly banned. Ubisoft has responded to the ongoing issues, but the title is still inaccessible.
Billions of R6 Credits, the Siege premium currency, exclusive items from promotions, and Alpha Packs (loot boxes) were seemingly made available for large swaths of players. As many were making use of the sudden windfall, huge amounts of seemingly random bans were being handed out too, with the hackers even sending custom messages to players using the public ban notification system.
Ubisoft’s first response to the mayhem confirmed the “incident” and that it was investigating. Soon after, as players possibly began spending the billions of premium currency in their accounts, Ubisoft announced that it has shut down the in-game Rainbow Six Siege marketplace as it tries to gain back control.
The most recent situation update from Ubisoft, as of writing this, finally gave some information to players. It revealed that a rollback of all transactions to the state they were in before the hack (11AM UTC) is planned, and that nobody will be banned for spending what they had in their accounts.
Moreover, it confirmed that the custom ban messages that were spamming players were not triggered by the company. “We are working very hard to make sure this is resolved and players can play again,” it added.
Details on how attackers gained access to the Rainbow Six Siege’s backend and a timeline on when the game will be back online have not been given yet.