Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline (engadget.com)
(Monday December 29, 2025 @05:44AM (EditorDavid)
from the game-off dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/0637253/breach-forces-ubisoft-to-take-rainbow-six-siege-offline
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/ubisoft-is-rolling-back-rainbow-six-siege-servers-after-being-forced-to-shut-them-down-191049440.html
Engadget reports on "a widespread breach" of Ubisoft's game Rainbow Six Siege "that [1]left various players with billions of in-game credits , ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts."
Ubisoft took the game's servers offline [2]early Saturday morning , and as of Sunday night its [3]status page still shows "unplanned outage" on all servers across PC, PlayStation and Xbox:
> Ubisoft later clarified Saturday afternoon [4]on X that nobody would be banned if they spent their ill-gotten credits, but that a rollback of all transactions starting from Saturday, 6AM ET would soon be underway.
Founded 39 years ago, France-based Ubisoft produces top videogame franchises like Assassin's Creed , with billions in revenue and over 17,097 employees worldwide.
[1] https://www.engadget.com/gaming/ubisoft-is-rolling-back-rainbow-six-siege-servers-after-being-forced-to-shut-them-down-191049440.html
[2] https://x.com/Rainbow6Game/status/2004943312390926740
[3] https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/rainbow-six/siege/status
[4] https://x.com/Rainbow6Game/status/2005018314431447283?s=20
Ubisoft took the game's servers offline [2]early Saturday morning , and as of Sunday night its [3]status page still shows "unplanned outage" on all servers across PC, PlayStation and Xbox:
> Ubisoft later clarified Saturday afternoon [4]on X that nobody would be banned if they spent their ill-gotten credits, but that a rollback of all transactions starting from Saturday, 6AM ET would soon be underway.
Founded 39 years ago, France-based Ubisoft produces top videogame franchises like Assassin's Creed , with billions in revenue and over 17,097 employees worldwide.
[1] https://www.engadget.com/gaming/ubisoft-is-rolling-back-rainbow-six-siege-servers-after-being-forced-to-shut-them-down-191049440.html
[2] https://x.com/Rainbow6Game/status/2004943312390926740
[3] https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/rainbow-six/siege/status
[4] https://x.com/Rainbow6Game/status/2005018314431447283?s=20
How pathetic (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
I guess they though they could do IT security on the cheap, after all it is a pure const center and never a profit-center. Or so. Or rather the opposite. Morons.
Re: (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
> Who says they were being cheap in security?
Observable evidence. You may have heard of it, even if you probably do not understand the concept.
Over 17,097 employees (Score:2)
by Calydor ( 739835 )
So ... 17,098?
why rollback? (Score:2)
Wouldn't it be a more interesting experiment to give every current player the maximum credits that were "breached in"?
Re: (Score:2)
Well, while this would certainly rid us of the pest that is Ubisoft, they are not dumb enough to go with "We got hacked, but we do not care about players and hence will do nothing!"