Rainbow Six Siege is finally back online following a chaotic weekend breach. Starting around December 27, hackers compromised the game’s servers and unleashed absolute bedlam on the player base. The incident forced Ubisoft to pull the plug on the servers entirely to contain the damage.
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.
— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 27, 2025
Billions in Credits & Global Ticker Hijacks
The breach was far more severe than a standard outage. Players reported receiving billions of in-game credits and ultra-rare or developer-only skins. Furthermore, the hackers triggered random bans and unbans across the community.
Most notably, the intruders hijacked the global ban ticker to broadcast cheeky messages to all players. These messages ranged from the lyrics of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” to controversial statements claiming, “Yves Guillemot was in the Epstein files”.
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— Tyler🇩🇪 (@dontVitaame) December 27, 2025
Ubisoft Rolls Back Transactions
Ubisoft confirmed the incident on X. Consequently, the developers took the game offline to resolve the exploit.
Update: Siege and the Marketplace have been intentionally shut down while the team focuses on resolving the issue. https://t.co/7k6Jsa5CiM
— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 27, 2025
To fix the economy, Ubisoft has rolled back all transactions made during the incident. However, they provided a crucial clarification that no players will be punished for spending the credits randomly distributed by the hackers. Additionally, the studio explicitly stated that Ubisoft did not sanction the messages seen on the ban ticker.
➡️ 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
Current Status of Rainbow Six Siege & Community Reaction
As of now, the servers are back online. However, the in-game marketplace remains down.
➡️ 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… https://t.co/mfaAVnvK5G— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 29, 2025
While players initially faced long queues, the official Rainbow Six account states these are now resolved.
We have been closely monitoring since bringing Siege back online and are aware that some players are experiencing long queue times, queue resets and synchronization errors.
The issues regarding queue have now been resolved.
We appreciate your patience as we work hard to… https://t.co/VNQI9CGPvN
— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 29, 2025
The community reaction has been a mix of confusion and memes. Threads on the Rainbow Six subreddit warned users against spending “ill-gotten” credits. Despite the frustration, players are returning.
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The source of the attack remains unconfirmed. A report by Bleeping Computer cites unverified claims via VX-Underground, suggesting various hacker groups are attempting to take credit for the havoc. But, for now, nothing can be said with certainty about this incident. Stay tuned to TechJuice for any further updates.
