Rainbow Six Siege X Hacked – Everything we Know

Reports on December 27th that Rainbow Six Siege X had been hacked by an unknown group looked to be true when players started getting banned or receiving huge sums of R6 Credits into their accounts. The news came out fast, but we know a fair bit already.

After an initial response from Ubisoft that the servers were having issues, many players started to notice that it might be a lot more serious. The issue also saw hackers gain access to the Siege chat, posting toxic messages about a number of topics, including taking shots at Yves Guillemot, the co-founder of Ubisoft.

Rainbow Six Siege X Hacked

Update #3 – Ubisoft has now confirmed the servers are starting to come back online as their test is complete

“Our live tests are now complete and we are opening the game to all players. Please note that you may experience a queue when connecting, as our services ramp up. The rollback is also complete. Players who did not log in between December 27th 10:49 UTC and December 29th should see no changes to their inventory. For those that did connect after December 27th 10:49 UTC: A small percentage of players may temporarily lose access to some owned items. Investigations and corrections will continue over the next two weeks.”

Update #2 – Ubisoft has confirmed that a rollback of the servers will take place on December 28th.

“A rollback is currently ongoing, and afterwards, extensive quality control tests will be executed to ensure the integrity of accounts and the effectiveness of changes. 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. Thank you all for your patience and understanding as we continue to tackle this.”

Update #1 – Ubisoft issued an update on the issues to reassure people about account bans:

“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 occur, but it is not related to this incident. We are working very hard to make sure this is resolved, and players can play again.”

This story is being updated as we get more information about the situation from the community or Ubisoft.

After initial reports of server issues in Rainbow Six Siege X, it later turned out that more was happening behind the scenes.

The first response from Ubisoft came an hour after the initial reports and read as follows:

“We’re aware of an incident currently affecting Rainbow Six Siege. Our teams are working on a resolution. We will share further updates once available.”

Just after this message went out, Ubisoft shut down the Rainbow Six Siege X marketplace, a temporary fix to stop players from using the store to buy things with the hacked R6 currency. Other players reported having received skins, Alpha packs, other currencies and more when they logged in. Advice from the community has been just to not log in until Ubisoft says the situation is resolved.

Rainbow Six Siege servers are UNDER ATTACK 🚨

Players are reporting huge amounts of R6 Credits, Renown, Alpha Packs, and rare items as well as false bans and more.

We recommend NOT logging in and NOT buying or trading anything until it’s resolved ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/vyTBhc8yt4

— Rainbow Six Siege Intel (@SiegeINTEL) December 27, 2025

As shown in the Tweet above, players are seeing massive waves of currency placed into their accounts. Though Ubisoft will likely undo them, abusing this could result in a ban. In fact, some players are already reporting that they’ve been banned. It’s unknown if this is due to the hack or a result of them spending currency they are not supposed to have.

Twitch Streamer KingGeorge was quick to guide the community on what not to do:”Do not log into your game, do not spend Renown, do not spend Rainbow Credits – that is my early warning to you. They have banned people in the past for their own screw ups. So, I would definitely recommend just not even logging into the game.”

The Official Discord moderators suggest that you “DO NOT spend” any credits, as this could “be interpreted as a breach of Terms of Service”. So if it wasn’t clear already, it would be a good idea not to spend any of the currency you have been given.

As things stand, a few hours after the initial attack, no word on a fix has been issued, alongside no updates on how the hack happened in the first place.

We’ve had no other updates from Ubisoft, though Hotspawn has reached out for more information.