Cyber Security Headlines Rainbow Six Siege breach, backup generators for AI, LastPass reverberations
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Dec 29, 2025 Rainbow Six Siege faces a significant breach, prompting transaction rollbacks as gamers shift their focus. With AI power demands soaring, diesel generators and aircraft engines are in high demand to keep data centers running. Meanwhile, the repercussions of the LastPass breach continue to unfold, allowing hackers to exploit stolen vaults for crypto wallet access. Additionally, OpenAI might introduce sponsored content in ChatGPT, while New York mandates warning labels for addictive features on social media aimed at younger users.
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Large-Scale Game Breach Causes Market Rollback
- Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege breach let attackers unban players and grant massive in-game currency, forcing an immediate shutdown of the game and marketplace.
- Ubisoft rolled back transactions since 11 a.m. Paris time and said players wouldn't be punished for spending the granted credits.
Generators And Jet Engines Power AI Demand
- Data center builders are turning to diesel generators and aeroderivative turbines from jet engines to meet surging AI power needs.
- Regulators may loosen rules or commandeer existing backup generators to cover demand amid long grid connection wait times.
Old LastPass Backups Fuel Crypto Thefts
- Encrypted vault backups stolen in LastPass's 2022 breach are still used to brute-force weak master passwords and drain crypto wallets.
- TRM Labs traced continued wallet drains through 2024–2025 to mixers and high-risk Russian exchanges, indicating likely Russian criminal involvement.