French publisher Ubisoft did not accidentally struggle with bugs in its games last week.

Last week, if you noticed that some Ubisoft games and services were either inaccessible or rabidly slow, it wasn’t our device that was at fault: the company, led by Yves Guillemot, was under a cyberattack. It has been averted and, according to their statement, the as-of-yet unidentified attackers were unable to steal players’ data.

“Last week, Ubisoft experienced a cyber security incident that caused temporary disruption to some of our games, systems, and services. Our IT teams are working with leading external experts to investigate the issue. As a precautionary measure, we initiated a company-wide password reset. Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time, there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident,” Ubisoft said.

In 2020, Ubisoft sued the website SNG. It allowed users to attack the game’s servers in Rainbow Six: Siege (a multiplayer-oriented product). The French company won the lawsuit in the Central District Court of California, where the judge awarded Ubisoft damages of nearly $153 000. However, the gaming industry is no stranger to this kind of attack.

In early 2021, CD Projekt RED suffered a similar cyberattack, which also delayed the development of patches for Cyberpunk 2077 (and the next-gen version, which has since been released, was also delayed, as was the PlayStation 5/Xbox Series version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is due out by the end of June). And more recently, Nvidia has fallen victim, and the company has been hit quite badly. The source code for the company’s DLSS (deep learning super sampling, machine learning upscaling/image reconstruction) technology has been leaked.

So security is not perfect even for the more prominent companies in the industry, even though it could be valuable to have proper protection. Now, the French company has to work hard to find out who was behind the attack…

Source: WCCFTech