Hackers breach Ubisoft's Siege servers, flood players with premium currency and bans

Ubisoft live service game Rainbow Six Siege has suffered a major breach, impacting its servers, players, marketplace, and possibly other areas. Earlier today, players of the tactical shooter began reporting massive amounts of premium currency being granted to them, while others were being randomly banned. Ubisoft has responded to the ongoing issues, but the title is still inaccessible.

Billions of R6 Credits, the Siege premium currency, exclusive items from promotions, and Alpha Packs (loot boxes) were seemingly made available for large swaths of players. As many were making use of the sudden windfall, huge amounts of seemingly random bans were being handed out too, with the hackers even sending custom messages to players using the public ban notification system.

Ubisoft"s first response to the mayhem confirmed the "incident" and that it was investigating. Soon after, as players possibly began spending the billions of premium currency in their accounts, Ubisoft announced that it has shut down the in-game Rainbow Six Siege marketplace as it tries to gain back control.

The most recent situation update from Ubisoft, as of writing this, finally gave some information to players. It revealed that a rollback of all transactions to the state they were in before the hack (11AM UTC) is planned, and that nobody will be banned for spending what they had in their accounts.

Moreover, it confirmed that the custom ban messages that were spamming players were not triggered by the company. "We are working very hard to make sure this is resolved and players can play again," it added.

➡️ Nobody will be banned for spending credits received. A rollback of all transactions that occurred since 11 AM (UTC time) is underway.

➡️ The ban ticker was turned off in a past update. Any messages seen were not triggered by us.

➡️ An official R6 ShieldGuard ban wave did… https://t.co/zbPYDJQa3O

— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 27, 2025

Details on how attackers gained access to the Rainbow Six Siege"s backend and a timeline on when the game will be back online have not been given yet.


UPDATE: Ubisoft has now confirmed that work has begun on the rollback with "extreme care." However, the company said that it cannot yet give a timeline on when the game will be accessible again, as it will also be running quality control tests following the rollback to make sure accounts have been correctly reverted to their original states before the hack.

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