{"id":1998,"date":"2025-12-28T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/ubisoft-shuts-down-rainbow-six-siege-servers-following-hack\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:42:07","slug":"ubisoft-shuts-down-rainbow-six-siege-servers-following-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/ubisoft-shuts-down-rainbow-six-siege-servers-following-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft shuts down \u2018Rainbow Six Siege\u2019 servers following hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/24446370\/rainbow_six_siege_logo_header._1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Yesterday, Ubisoft <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rainbow6Game\/status\/2004917731829948808\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that <em>Rainbow Six Siege<\/em> had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/massive-rainbow-six-siege-breach-gives-players-billions-of-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compromised<\/a> and that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rainbow6Game\/status\/2004943312390926740\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a> the game&rsquo;s servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kinggeorge\/status\/2004902566434668686\" target=\"_blank\">gain control<\/a> over a significant chunk of the game&rsquo;s systems, including the ability to ban and unban users, sending <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ViTo_DEE91\/status\/2004910559884628290\" target=\"_blank\">custom messages<\/a> to ban ticker, unlocking all in-game items, and granting every player 2 billion R6 Credits and Renown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ubisoft sells R6 credits in its store, pricing 15,000 of them at $99.99. That means the actual cash value of 2 billion R6 credits is about $13.33 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ubisoft made it clear that nobody would be punished for spending any c \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/850551\/ubisoft-shuts-down-rainbow-six-siege-servers-following-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game&rsquo;s servers and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}