Last November a Ubisoft A person scandaled around Montreal, who now turned out to have continued his attempts after the misfortune.
The Canadian Press reports that the hostage hoax in November was followed by further calls in December and January and that the caller aimed to Rainbow Six: Siege ban a player. With calls from an ambulance in November, he lured police to Ubisoft’s Montreal studio, and according to the paper (citing court documents), the same person claimed to have placed a bomb near the childcare department in the studio, and in January he said several people on the phone also became a hostage and someone from the leadership was shot…
The French publisher’s studio was also evacuated in November, but afterwards the police handled the case in silence, so they first assessed the situation before taking action. A day after the third call, the troublemaker made direct contact with the studio, disguising himself as a Rainbow Six developer. The employees didn’t lean on him, and so he threatened to continue harassing him until Ubisoft gave him the formulaic banhammer in the Rainbow Six game. He wanted to ban a 16-year-old Swedish eSporter, Spiot.
According to La Presse, an investigation by the Montreal Police Department (SPVM) led to a French player, Yanni “Y4nn0XX” Ouahioune. He has been banned from Rainbow Six: Siege more than eighty times (no mention is made of which part of the franchise it is, but since the new act, the rumored Parasite subtitle has not yet been released, chances are Siege is the topic, henceforth R6Swe write as!). At La Presse’s request, he denied it had anything to do with the hoax calls, but acknowledged that the French authorities had accused him of creating a rogue Ubisoft website that could trick R6S players into extracting the data needed to log in. He also acknowledged that he had also challenged the standby police to someone four years ago (that would be swatting in English) and publicly claimed that he had hacked Spoit’s account as well, but said the statement was a lie.
A spokesman for the SPVM told Gamesindustry that the identity of the perpetrator would be investigated and at least one person would be arrested in the case, but he did not disclose further details, so we do not know whether Ouahioune was charged with hoax calls or sem…
Source: Gamesindustry
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