India, Dec. 29 -- Hackers breached Ubisoft's backend around 11 a.m. UTC on December 27, flooding countless accounts with billions of in-game Rainbow Six Siege credits, rare skins, and packs, while sending random fake ban messages. Ubisoft shut down all servers and the marketplace that afternoon to control the damage and also promised no punishments for players who spent the gifted credits and launching full transaction rollbacks with quality checks. As pros and casuals miss ranked matches and daily rewards, unverified rumors of massive source code theft swirl online, though Ubisoft sources dismiss them as exaggerated with no proof. So, did the massive data breach really happen at Ubisoft?

Popular social media platform 'X' is flooded with...