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The past few days have seen a wave of rumors that Ubisoft has been hit by a series of large-scale security breaches, but informed sources have confirmed that these claims have been greatly exaggerated and are not based on credible evidence.
The story began after Ubisoft temporarily shut down Rainbow Six Siege’s servers following an incident that allowed a hacker to give players approximately 339 trillion dollars in in-game currency, and according to sources close to the investigation, the company intends to implement a rollback process to undo these changes and return the situation to the way it was.
Later, other allegations spread online claiming that Ubisoft suffered a massive breach that included the leak of around 900GB of sensitive data said to contain code, internal tools, and development materials related to upcoming and previous games of the company.
However, these claims were quickly discredited, as those who promoted them were unable to provide any actual evidence that this hack occurred, and even one of the groups that previously claimed that user data had been compromised retracted their statements, confirming that the information they published was incorrect.
According to sources within Ubisoft, the company’s security team was aware of some limited incidents that occurred earlier this year, especially those related to leaks of projects such as Scout and the canceled Far Cry game that was codenamed Talisker, but these incidents do not rise to the level of the mass breach that was recently circulated.
Sources familiar with the backgrounds of some of the groups making these claims explained that what happened was greatly exaggerated and that some individuals tried to capitalize on the headline-grabbing Rainbow Six Siege incident in search of fame and attention.
Ubisoft has yet to issue an official comment on these reports, as it did not respond to requests for comment due to the holidays.
In the end, despite a real technical incident within Rainbow Six Siege, talk of massive hacks and massive leaks of Ubisoft’s data seems more like amplified rumors than confirmed facts.
