Don’t Worry If You Spent Those Hacked Rainbow Six Siege Credits, Ubisoft Promises You Won’t Get Banned
James Lucas is an Executive Editor from Newcastle, England. They have written for sites like IGN, NME, GaymingMag, and VG247, with a special focus on FPS games, Soulslikes, and survival horror.
Yesterday, hackers launched a major attack against Rainbow Six Siege X, gifting every player two billion credits, hijacking the feed to hurl insults at Ubisoft, while also handing out incredibly rare cosmetics.
It might’ve been tempting to go for a joy-ride with these ill-gotten goods, but content creators urged players to stay offline and not touch anything. A moderator on the official Discord server even stressed that spending these credits might go against the game’s terms of service, but if you did, don’t worry – you won’t get banned.
“Nobody will be banned for spending credits received,” the official Rainbow Six Siege X socials assured players. “A rollback of all transaction that occurred since 11am (UTC time) is underway.”
UPDATE: Following this article’s publication, Ubisoft has made a fresh statement regarding the incident, explaining that “extensive quality control tests will be executed to ensure the integrity of accounts and effectiveness of changes” moving forward. The company emphasized that “this matter is being handled with extreme care,” notably mentioning that “timing cannot be guaranteed.” Read the full tweet here.
Ubisoft stressed that it is “working very hard to make sure this is resolved and players can play again”, but if reports are to be believed, then the situation could get much worse.
“They used the Rainbow Six hack as a Trojan horse, a distraction to access the servers and attempt to steal the source code for several of their games” claimed @TaisonTV (as translated by DeepL). “The alleged group of hackers responsible is demanding via Telegram that if Ubisoft does not contact them with a business proposal for the immediate future, they will choose which classified information to leak to the public.”
Another worry players had was that their private information may have been stolen as part of the hack. However, according to @TaisonTV, the attackers have not gained access to any personal data, such as passwords and bank details.
Rumours have been spreading online in the wake of yesterday’s attack that the hackers have already stolen 900GB of data from Ubisoft, including the source code for all of its games dating back to the ’90s — an unmitigated disaster — but this was in fact “from another hack a few years ago”, and is unrelated to the current Siege debacle.
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