Is Rainbow Six Siege nonetheless down after big Ubisoft hack | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

The Christmas holidays have been nothing wanting a nightmare for Rainbow Six Siege gamers after the sport’s servers went offline after a large programs breach over the weekend. Hackers reportedly introduced Ubisoft’s greatest multiplayer title to a halt, freely giving in-game foreign money value nicely over $13 million in real-world worth.

Ubisoft was first made conscious of the difficulty after movies and pictures surfaced on social media with players revealing how they’d randomly acquired uncommon gadgets, together with an additional two billion R6 Credits of their accounts. Popular content material creator King George shared on X: “Seems like R6 is completely f*****, it’s unreal how bad. Hackers have done the following: banned and unbanned thousands of people, taken over the ban feed, gave everyone 2 billion credits and renown, and gave everyone every skin including dev skins.”

Ubisoft first acknowledged the assault on the morning of Saturday, December 27. The official Rainbow Six Siege account stated it was “aware of an incident” and was “working on a solution”.

Less than two hours later, it introduced that each Rainbow Six Siege and its Marketplace, the official platform utilized by players to commerce in-game gadgets, had been shut down.

The recreation would stay offline for nicely over 24 hours with a second replace posted on Sunday, December 28, confirming builders have been within the technique of rolling again the sport to its earlier state after conducting “extensive quality control tests”.

To the aid of Siege followers, Ubisoft declared the sport open for enterprise later within the night, but gamers are nonetheless reporting outages throughout numerous platforms.

According to Down Detector, the variety of outages plummeted round midnight on Monday, December 29, and would fall to extra manageable ranges at round 5am.

But there could be a slight surge in gamers reporting points accessing Rainbow Six at 9am, however nothing near what has transpired over the previous couple of days.

According to Ubisoft, the sport is on-line, however gamers could expertise queues.

“Our live tests are now complete and we are opening the game to all players,” Ubisoft explains. “Please note that you may experience a queue when connecting, as our services ramp up.”