Rainbow Six Siege is still struggling today after hackers gave out "billions" in in-game currency, forcing Ubisoft to briefly "intentionally" shut down the game.
Update 30/12/25 – A Ubisoft spokesperson has issued a statement with some further details and reassurances over the reports of hacking affecting Rainbow Six Siege X over the weekend.
With the game back online, Ubisoft’s investigation is ongoing, but notes that actual effects were able to be rolled back and that neither personal data or game source code was compromised.
Here’s the statement:
Rainbow Six Siege recently experienced a cyberattack causing limited disruptions, including fake ban notifications and unauthorized credit grants. While we are continuing our investigation, as of this time, there is no indication that any personal data nor source code was compromised as a result of this incident. To help resolve the issue, we initiated a temporary server shutdown and rolled back the unauthorized credit grants. Rainbow Six Siege is currently back online and players are returning to the game.
The original story follows.
Rainbow Six Siege X is now back online after the servers were shut down for over two days while Ubisoft dealt with a massive security breach. In the evening of 26th December players began to notice billions of in-game currency being added to their accounts and super rare skins being dropping into their inventories. Other players were banned, and some were unbanned.
Ubisoft have now rolled back all the data so players should have the correct amount of in-game credit, known as Renown. They state that players may find themselves in a queue to get back in to the game.
The event has kicked off a war of words between various hacking groups who are claiming they are responsible, and also that one groups have stolen the source code for every Ubisoft game. These claims seem to be an exaggeration and probably not true.
However, there is evidence to suggest that Ubisoft were not hacked at all. It is reported that Ubisoft had outsourced helpdesk support to a company in India and that an employee there was bribed to give “Panel Access” to a third party. This then gave the third party access to user accounts, ban functions and other facilities. If this is true then Ubisoft were not hacked, it was bribery and human corruption that caused the issues.
It is also reported that another group is contacting people on Telegram claiming they have their personal details from hacking Ubisoft, and they are demanding money. This appears to be a scam and they have no connection to the group that breached the Rainbow Six servers. Ubisoft have, so far, not stated that any user data was breached.
Ubisoft overhauled the decade-old tactical shooter in June of this year, renaming it Rainbow Six Siege X, and added a whole host of technical improvements, as well as transitioning the game to a free-to-play model.
Rainbow Six is also one of three games hived off to a separate Ubisoft company, along with Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.
Source: thecybersecguru.com
This story has an update which you can read here.
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The servers for Rainbow Six Siege X have been offline for over twenty-four hours after hackers managed to get into the hardware, gifting billions of in-game currency and unbanning players. The official Rainbow Six Siege server status page is rather coyly calling this an “unplanned outage”.
The issues began late on the 26th December when players started noticing billions of currency, known as Renown, dropping into their accounts. Ubisoft’s anti-cheat software then started suspending accounts. Others found strange messages appearing on the side of the screen, or super-rare skins in their inventory.
Ubisoft have shut down all servers for all platforms and have posted a couple of updates. Firstly they say that no one will be banned if they managed to spend any of the credits they received, but a rollback of accounts is in progress to remove the pirate treasure. They also say the ban ticker that was turned off in an old update had been reinstated, but will now be removed again, and “an official R6 ShieldGuard ban wave did occur, but it is not related to this incident.”
“A rollback is currently ongoing and afterwards, extensive quality control tests will be executed to ensure the integrity of accounts and effectiveness of changes,” posted Ubisoft on X “The team is focused on getting players back into the game as quickly as possible. Please know that this matter is being handled with extreme care and therefore, timing cannot be guaranteed. We will provide another update as soon as we know more.”
Ubisoft overhauled the decade-old tactical shooter in June of this year, renaming it Rainbow Six Siege X, and added a whole host of technical improvements, as well as transitioning the game to a free-to-play model.
Rainbow Six is also one of three games hived off to a separate Ubisoft company, along with Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.
Source: Reddit
Rainbow Six Siege X has apparently been breached again (see what I did there?) following a previous hack that took place over the holidays, with players reporting unwarranted and lengthy bans from it.
On Dec. 27, the free-to-play FPS was taken over in a massive server breach that saw the hackers reward players with billions of paid currency for free, along with spamming the in-game messaging system. The game had to be taken down to fix the issue, but now, it appears to be suffering some similar issues from hackers who are memeing once more.
This time, the hackers are issuing 67-day bans to players. Yeah, it's the annoying six-seven meme again, following us into 2026 because nothing is sacred anymore. Players began to post about the bans yesterday, and the issue has continued into the new week, causing some serious concern.
Ubisoft's server status page for the game shows "some issues" that are "being investigated," including Connectivity listed as "Degraded" while Authentication, In-Game Store, and Matchmaking are listed with an "Outage" across all of the game's platforms. Yikes.
So far, there has been no update from Ubisoft's support account nor the official accounts for the game, but the issues with the servers appear to be related to whatever is happening now with the hack. And judging by how the company addressed the last issue from December, which included bringing the game offline to fix the problems, it appears to be another breach.
December's hack was allegedly a diversion to steal info from the publisher, so if this is yet another breach that's affecting the game and its players so quickly after, there may be some big repercussions behind the scenes.
For now, I'd say maybe take a break from the title for a while until its security is improved, because two substantial breaches in the course of a couple weeks is pretty scary.
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Yesterday, on Dec. 27, Rainbow Six Siege X was hit by a massive security breach, which enabled hackers to give out literal trillions in premium currency, as well as to unlock any skin, including developer ones, for all players. However, that could've just been a front for something far more sinister.
According to Taison TV, a Spanish-language news source, the Rainbow Six Siege X breach was allegedly a "Trojan horse," used to distract Ubisoft while the hackers stole valuable and "classified" information from the company. The hacker group, allegedly named Arctic, seemingly bragged about the hack on a private Telegram channel, saying it had covered its tracks enough to allow them to hack the company again.
Ubisoft sources reportedly told Taison TV that the personal data of players wasn't affected by the breach. The group seemingly plans to release certain information it had acquired in the hack, and will do so if Ubisoft does not contact them. From a screenshot shared by Taison TV, it seems the group wishes to sell the information to potential buyers, but will first redact information to avoid harming Siege players.
So far, Ubisoft has released very little official information about the hack, but its silence could indicate a much bigger problem than was first anticipated. A few hours after the Siege hack, Ubisoft apparently cut not only Siege's servers but most of its game servers, taking games like For Honor completely offline. This could've been done to assess all the damage done by the breach, which may have included servers and services not related to Siege itself.
Ubisoft only confirmed the Siege server cut, but did not provide information about its other games.
For Honor has been brought back since last night, but Siege's servers remain offline across all relevant platforms.
The above should be taken as an allegation, nothing more, since we do not have official information from Ubisoft or relevant developer teams at the time of writing, which only makes sense given the potential severity of this security breach.
If it does turn out to be true, it's anyone's guess what the hackers might have gotten their hands on, though initial theories include leaks of Ubisoft's dev builds, source code, planned and cancelled games, among other things.
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Rainbow Six Siege has been hit by a massive server breach, which hackers exploited to grant players billions in premium currency, alongside other exclusive items, skins, and a whole lot more. Ubisoft promptly shut the servers down, but the damage caused could be quite severe.
As per Pirat Nation on X, Rainbow Six Siege players were suddenly granted “massive amounts of R6 Credits, Renown, Alpha Packs, and exclusive items,” while a ton of accounts were either banned or unbanned. Streamer King George reported “thousands of people” were banned and unbanned, that over two billion of premium currency was given out, and that every player had received every single skin in the game, including those skins only available to the developers themselves.
Ubisoft is allegedly keeping an eye on player behavior, as those who had spent the fraudulent funds could be liable for a ban, so I'd advise you to steer clear of the premium currency.
This is a massive security breach, one which Ubisoft itself initially confirmed. It took hours to kill the marketplace and take the servers down, however, which could leave a lasting impact on the game and especially its economy. If Ubisoft can reverse and undo these holiday freebies, then perhaps nothing will come of it, but it still stands as one of the biggest hacks of a live-service game ever.
Rainbow Six Siege X's servers are currently offline pending investigation and the resolution of this breach, and we'll update this piece with extra information as it becomes available.
It is currently unknown when the servers are expected to be back online, but given the severity of the situation, I'd wager that's at least hours off, if not more.
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