News Summary

• This is just the latest attempted data breach of a major video game company, a trend that got significant time under the spotlight earlier in December after Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games had sensitive employee data and information about upcoming video games leaked in a massive hack..
• Just days after Insomniac suffered a horrible data breach, Ubisoft may have avoided the same fate.Security collective VX-Underground shared a report on X (formerly Twitter) that, on Dec. 20, an "unknown Threat Actor" got access to Ubisoft's internal tools, sharing screenshots online..
• They allegedly intended to get 900GB worth of data from the French game publisher behind titles like Assassin's Creed and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but according to VX-Underground, Ubisoft revoked access after 48 hours..
• Ubisoft told BleepingComputer in a statement that it is "aware of an alleged data security incident" and is investigating the matter, but did not have anything else to share..
• The hackers apparently wanted to get Rainbow Six: Siege user data, but were not successful in that endeavor, per VX-Underground..