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Rainbow Six Siege X "cyberattack" sees players hit with bogus 'bans,' but Ubisoft assures source code and personal details are safe

January 6, 2026 at 4:10am PT This article has been updated with official statements from Ubisoft, one posted on social media and one provided to PCGamesN. Information on Siege's server status has also been updated.

January 5, 2026 at 9:37am PT This article has been updated with more evidence of an apparent hack of Rainbow Six Siege's servers.

While every game developer hopes for a peaceful, drama-free Christmas period, such a luxury wasn't afforded to Ubisoft last week. A huge breach of Rainbow Six Siege X saw hackers bestow players with mountains of in-game currency, which resulted in Ubi taking the game offline, performing a server rollback, and keeping its marketplace locked down before returning things to some kind of normality more than a day later. However, just a week on, it appears that Siege has been targeted again. While not as broad an issue this time around, it's just as concerning and embarrassing. Streamers are being issued messages notifying them of in-game bans for harassment, and the 67-day duration appears to be a nod to the now infamous 6-7 meme.

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Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency

On December 27, the official Rainbow Six Siege account posted on X that it was "aware of an incident" affecting the game, but that sort of undersells it. Hackers went berserk in Siege over the weekend, and players reported a range of anomalies: receipt of billions of credits and ultra-rare or developer-only skins, and chaotic bans and unbans, including cheeky messages sent via the global ban ticker. (For instance, the lyrics to Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me.")..
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Ubisoft Denies Data Breach Claims After Rainbow Six Siege Currency Hack

Since Ubisoft’s recent Rainbow Six Siege currency hack, the company has shut down false claims of an additional data breach.

This weekend, players of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege were left confused after a major in-game exploit disrupted normal play. Following the incident, Ubisoft temporarily shut down the game’s servers and marketplace across all platforms. Players reported receiving developer-only cosmetic items, billions of in-game credits and, in some cases, account bans. Ubisoft also responded to claims that the incident involved a broader data breach. Those allegations have since been debunked, with the company confirming that no user data was compromised.

On the morning of Saturday, December 27, 2025, a slew of Rainbow Six Siege players reported seeing huge amounts of in-game currency, Renown, Alpha Packs, and even exclusive cosmetic items they never unlocked. At the same time, numerous accounts were hit with random bans. Some players explained these bans were... Read more

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