R6DB, an online gaming service which provides statistics for Rainbow Six siege players, was hacked and the database was deleted. According to the company, the attacker accessed their servers through an automated bot on September 30 and wiped of their dat
R6DB, an online gaming service which provides statistics for Rainbow Six siege players, was hacked and the database was deleted.According to the company, the attacker accessed their servers through an automated bot on September 30 and wiped of their database. The attacker demanded a ransom to get back the data.The hacker was able to access the company's database server through a remote connection which was established during the development phase.“Due to the hectic and unplanned September migration, we didn’t have everything locked down yet, which led to this situation,” an R6DB spokesperson said. “They left a nice ransom message, but we have no reason to believe that they kept any data. On top of that our backups are useless since they didn’t work on the Postgres codebase yet.”R6DB said the data which was breached contained only statistics about players activities, and no personal information of Rainbow Six siege players were exposed."We basically lost all our historical data," said R6DB. "Some profiles are gone. We can re-index them when searched for, but that’s a step we can’t do ourselves.""Progressions (aka historical data, aka charts) are [EXPLETIVE] They’ll fill up again over time, but the past is gone," R6DB said. "[PC only] aliases are half-[REDACTED]. We still have some older data, but about a months worth of aliases is lost."R6DB has wiped off the entire machine and reinstalled it again to be safe. The team is currently working to restore the wiped data as much as possible.To secure your organizations from similar attacks, you may read our article on ‘How to achieve effective Information Security with a holistic approach?”