Ubisoft has taken all Rainbow Six Siege servers offline after a major hack caused players to randomly receive billions of in-game credits, rare skins, and unexpected bans and unbans, raising serious concerns over the game’s backend security.
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Ubisoft confirms a major breach in Rainbow Six Siege where attackers used internal tools to ban and unban players and give accounts huge amounts of in-game credits and items, forcing Ubisoft to shut down game servers and roll back recent transactions.
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