Ubisoft Shuts Down ‘rainbow Six Siege’ Servers Following Hack

Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down nan game's servers and marketplace while it resolved nan issue. The hackers managed to gain control complete a important chunk of nan game's systems, including nan expertise to prohibition and unban users, sending custom messages to prohibition ticker, unlocking each in-game items, and granting each subordinate 2 cardinal R6 Credits and Renown.

Ubisoft sells R6 credits successful its store, pricing 15,000 of them astatine $99.99. That intends nan existent rate worth of 2 cardinal R6 credits is astir $13.33 million.

Ubisoft made it clear that cipher would beryllium punished for spending immoderate c …

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