Victim of a massive attack over the weekend, Rainbow Six Siege is slowly but surely seeing its activities restart, even if work still remains to be done for Ubisoft.
For players of Rainbow Six Siegethe meeting with Santa Claus will have had a very special flavor this year. Indeed, over the weekend, some members of the community began to receive unexpected gifts, ranging from skins normally reserved for developers to large amounts of in-game credits, including untimely bans. But make no mistake: this is obviously not the work of Ubisoft, but that of hackers who invaded the Rainbow Six Siege servers.
Rainbow Six Siege victim of attack, Ubisoft reacts
Launched on December 27, the attack in question, which quickly took on disproportionate proportions, apparently had only one objective: to cause harm to Ubisoft. In any case, this is what we can deduce from the various actions carried out by the hackers who, in addition to hijacking the game’s logbook to broadcast controversial messages intended for the publisher of Rainbow Six Siege, distributed no less than 339,960,000,000 in-game credits to the community. Enough to allow some to have fun in the game store, therefore.
Ubisoft, which of course did not take long to detect the attack, did not fail to react. First by announcing that it had launched an investigation into what was originally simply described as « d’incident »then by proceeding with a pure and simple shutdown of the Rainbow Six Siege servers while “the team is working to resolve the problem”. A problem which, at the time of writing, is gradually starting to get back to normal, as evidenced by the complete reopening of the servers during the night.
“Please note that you may experience queues when logging in while our services ramp up” nevertheless specify the developers of Rainbow Six Siege, before adding that a “restoration” servers was operated. “For those who logged in after December 27 at 10:49 UTC: A small percentage of players may temporarily lose access to some items they own. Investigations and corrections will continue over the next two weeks”explains Ubisoft.
The in-game store closed until further notice
For its part, the Rainbow Six Siege in-game store will remain. “closed until further notice”In any case “while investigations continue”. Knowing that, contrary to what some may have said before the servers were closed, Ubisoft ensures that “no one will be banned for spending the credits received”. That being said, players affected by the grace of hackers should not rejoice too quickly, because “a cancellation of all transactions carried out” after the attack was naturally operated.
It now remains to be seen the consequences of this in the long term. Because according to certain sources, the Rainbow Six Siege hack is in reality only the tip of the iceberg, which would hide an even larger attack against Ubisoft. Even if, according to more recent information shared by Insider Gaming, this assertion should still be taken with a grain of salt in the sense that the sources in question would have “vastly exaggerated” things for “take advantage” of the situation. Be careful, therefore.
Sources : Ubisoft, Insider Gaming
