Ubisoft cancels Rainbow Six Siege servers after being forced to shut them down

Ubisoft closed Rainbow Six Headquartersand is reversing the fallout from a widespread breach that left various players with billions in in-game credits, ultra-rare weapon skins, and banned accounts. From Sunday afternoon, the status page on Rainbow Six HeadquartersThe website still shows an “unexpected outage” on all PC, PlayStation and Xbox servers.

The fiasco began Saturday morning when Ubisoft said the that they were “aware of an incident currently affecting Rainbow Six Headquarters” and “working on a resolution.” A few hours later, the Rainbow Six Headquarters the servers were closed, following numerous user reports displaying either zero or billions of R6 credits, rare skins in their lockers and account bans or bans. Ubisoft clarified later Saturday afternoon on that no one would be banned for spending their ill-gotten credits, but that a rollback of all transactions starting Saturday, 6 a.m. ET, would soon be underway.

On Sunday afternoon, Ubisoft informed players that they were currently rolling back, but that “extensive quality control testing would be performed to ensure the integrity of accounts and the effectiveness of changes.” The company added that “this matter is being handled with extreme care and therefore timing cannot be guaranteed” and did not provide an estimate of when the servers would be back online.