Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline

Engadget reports on 'a widespread breach' of Ubisoft's game Rainbow Six Siege 'that left various players with billions of in-game credits, ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts.'

Ubisoft took the game's servers offline early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday night its status page still shows 'unplanned outage' on all servers across PC, PlayStation and Xbox:

Ubisoft later clarified Saturday afternoon 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.

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