{"id":1443765,"date":"2025-12-29T23:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uJmSXzXZbHyisd6oEhRWVd"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:35:21","slug":"rainbow-six-siege-servers-are-back-after-hackers-randomly-doled-out-bans-unbans-rare-skins-and-billions-in-in-game-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/rainbow-six-siege-servers-are-back-after-hackers-randomly-doled-out-bans-unbans-rare-skins-and-billions-in-in-game-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and ‘billions’ in in-game currency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On December 27, the official Rainbow Six Siege account posted on X<\/a> 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<\/a> and ultra-rare or developer-only skins<\/a>, 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.”)<\/p>\n

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Wtf pic.twitter.com\/VuR0skohGCDecember 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The bedlam carried on until Ubisoft brought the servers down entirely, as was confirmed on X<\/a>. A follow-up<\/a> shared that while no players would be punished for spending the random credits, all transactions from the time the incident started would be rolled back.<\/p>\n

It also clarified that the sudden influx of bans was part of the breach and that “any messages seen” via the ban ticker were not Ubisoft’s doing, which I think was never in question given that one of them read<\/a> “Yves Guillemot was in the epstein files.”<\/p>\n

The extent to which the game and any users were compromised is unclear, but the game is back up as of last night<\/a>, December 28, but the in-game marketplace is still down. A report by Bleeping Computer<\/a> goes over numerous “unverified claims” via VX-Underground<\/a> from various hacker groups all trying to take credit for the havoc.<\/p>\n

Players were, understandably, perplexed by all of this. Threads popped up all over the Rainbow Six subreddit warning players<\/a> not to spend any ill-gotten credits, though as mentioned above, all transactions are being met with a rollback. Players shared memes<\/a> about the incident and vented their frustrations<\/a> in all sorts of posts, with user Grouchy_Ad9470 commenting<\/a>, “Didn’t know that I would miss this shitty game so much lol.”<\/p>\n

Sorry if this has already been posted.<\/a> from r\/RainbowSixSiege<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n