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.
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”.
Ubisoft confirmed the incident on X. Consequently, the developers took the game offline to resolve the exploit.
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.
As of now, the servers are back online. However, the in-game marketplace remains down.
While players initially faced long queues, the official Rainbow Six account states these are now resolved.
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.