Rainbow Six Siege pulled offline after massive hack

Ubisoft has been forced to pull Rainbow Six Siege offline due to a recent hack. Someone managed to gain access to Ubisoft servers and began giving out billions of free R6 credits to random players across the game, while also issuing false bans and sending out unusual in-game system messages to players. 

Considering the events of this weekend, it seems likely that someone gained access to Ubisoft's game-wide moderation system, allowing them to press all kinds of buttons to mess with thousands of players across the world all at once. As you may expect, Ubisoft has pulled Rainbow Six Siege offline and frozen the skin marketplace while it looks into what happened.

As the attacker gave out free credits to players, some had already spent their credits on skins. If you were one of those people, then you won't have to worry about being banned, however, there will be a rollback of all store transactions, so anything you did purchase may disappear from your inventory, and your currency balance should revert back to what it was before the attack took place.

There is no word on when the game will come back online just yet, but we should get an update next week.

KitGuru Says: This is one of the wilder attacks we've seen in an online game. We're used to seeing people cheat in shooters, but we aren't used to seeing someone gifting thousands of dollars' worth of premium currency out to random players, sending out random game-wide messages to players and issuing bans and unbans. 

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