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 the game's servers and marketplace portion it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control implicit a important chunk of the game's systems, including the quality 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 means the existent currency worth of 2 cardinal R6 credits is astir $13.33 million.

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

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