Workers at Montreal-based video-game studio Ubisoft were forced to flee to the roof in a potential hostage situation that turned out to be a hoax: https://www.businessinsider.com/potential-hostage-situation-...

Montreal police confirm hoax triggered major police operation at Mile End Ubisoft offices: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-ubis...

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CBC, Radio-Canada and TVA are now reporting this as a hoax.

The police responded to a 911 call seemingly made from inside the building. Initially it was reported to be for an armed theft, then for a hostage situation.

Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-ubis... "Montreal police confirm hoax triggered major police operation at Mile End Ubisoft offices"

Someone "swatted" the whole office.

This is really weird, in the case of a robbery as said in the article, what can someone rob aside from computers?

I mean, computers are expensive, but are really hard to carry in meaningful quantity

I worked at a granite shop. Someone came in and tried to rob us once. It was on a Saturday only one of my coworkers was there, he was in the back in the programming room where we a few computers and stuff. He had forgotten to lock the front door. Somebody came into the programming room and said he was robbing the place. Apparently, my coworker just started laughing at him and said 'There's no money, only stone take what you want.' I guess the guy just got confused and left.

There was things he could have probably stolen, tools and stuff, but I can't really see it being worth it.

"We don't want your IP, we want the company's IP. Decrypt the files and put them in the bag."

There are other businesses in the building.

Not in that one. Ubisoft Montreal is spread across a few different ones and they are not even next to one another - this one is owned entirely top to bottom by Ubisoft.

The police have said they are evacuating the building, but have not identified a threat: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1327353175670657024

Even though this is a hoax I would not have been surprised at all if there was an active shooter in the Ubisoft offices, what with all the people they fire, the crunch, the sexual assault allegations. Really happy that it was just a hoax though!