Some people allegedly just wanted hype and publicity.
Rumors of large-scale security breaches at Ubisoft began after the Rainbow Six Siege incident. On December 27, 2025, a hacker "gifted" players nearly $400 million in in-game currency, forcing Ubisoft to shut down its servers. According to sources, the company plans to roll back the changes to undo these transactions. At the same time, the company will not ban players who decide to accept the hacker's generosity.
However, the Rainbow Six Siege incident is not the only one. Hacker groups claimed a massive leak of 900 GB of data, including source code, internal tools, and development materials for Ubisoft games - both future and past.
Now it turns out that these claims are false: the hackers provided no evidence. Sources at Ubisoft told reporters that the company's security service was already aware of some incidents earlier in the year - after leaks on projects like Scout and the canceled Far Cry under the code name Talisker.
Another group that claimed to have hacked user data later renounced their words, admitting the information was fake.
According to sources familiar with the hacker groups, the events are "greatly exaggerated", and some participants simply "wanted hype" from the high-profile Rainbow Six Siege incident.
