Rainbow Six Siege X Is Back Online After Massive Hack Broke The Game

It was far from a peaceful Christmas weekend for the people in Ubisoft – as multiple data breaches allegedly occurred via a recently-known “MongoDB” exploit, and amongst the chaos, its FPS shooter title Rainbow Six Siege X was so severely breached that the game had to be taken offline for several days. Now, the game is back online, but the recovery process is still ongoing.

Rainbow Six Siege X’s Major Breach

Here’s how it original happened. On December 27th, players found out they were randomly given billions of R6 Credits and Renown (the game’s in-game currencies), worth $13,332,000 in real-life money; combine this figure to all of the 30 million active players that hackers have managed to give $13.3m away each, you get a staggeringly huge amount of “free money” given, which amounts to $339,960,000,000,000. That’s $340 trillion if you lost count of the zeroes.

Besides the economy-breaking breach, hackers managed to hand out ultra-rare weapon skins and cosmetics for free, along with mass account bans and unbans randomly, whilst those in-game saw custom messages in the ban feed which relayed lyrics from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, among other messages. Ubisoft quickly took the game offline after that to perform a rollback process that restores the game state prior to the breach, and the game subsequently came back online on December 29th.

In its announcement, Rainbow Six devs says those who didn’t log in between December 27th 10:49 UTC (18:49 MYT) and December 29th will see no changes; those who did during said period may temporarily lose access to some owned items as “investigations and corrections will continue over the next two weeks.” At this time, the game’s Marketplace feature remain disabled “until further notice.”

Pokdepinion: As far as game breaches go, this one is particularly nasty.