Rainbow Six Siege Servers Hacked: Players Receive Billions in Credits
On December 27, 2025, Rainbow Six Siege’s servers suffered a massive cyberattack. The incident occurred during the game’s 10th anniversary celebrations, affecting players across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms, while Ubisoft has yet to issue an official statement.
How the Attack Unfolded
The attack began in the early morning hours (GMT) with a strange wave of bans. Players started getting banned from matches without cause, cited for “TOS Breach” (Terms of Service violation). Hackers weaponized the game’s notification system—which normally alerts all players when someone gets banned—as a propaganda tool. In-game messages appeared stating “Ubisoft Support was banned” and “Yves Guillemot found in Epstein files.”
The real chaos erupted around midday GMT on December 27. Players logging into the game discovered billions of R6 Credits, billions of Renown, and absurdly inflated account levels (some accounts exceeding level 210,000) in their accounts. Additionally, the game’s rarest cosmetics—including Glacier skins, Developer skins, and the Gold Clover Leaf—were automatically added to accounts.
The timing coincided with the Christmas and New Year holiday period. With most of the development team on vacation, a delayed response is expected. While Ubisoft’s official status page shows services as operational, the company has not yet addressed the incident. The hackers likely discovered the vulnerability long ago and waited for this holiday window to strike.
Experts suggest the fix will require shutting down servers and restoring from backups. However, identifying and patching the security hole could take considerably longer. The community anticipates Ubisoft will roll back accounts to their pre-hack state. Given Ubisoft’s track record, whether proper backups exist—and how long the restoration process might take—remains uncertain. If hackers gained this level of database access, they may have also compromised the backups or deleted them entirely. Despite all this, hours passed without even the servers being taken offline.
Historical Context
This incident represents not just the biggest security breach in Rainbow Six Siege history, but potentially one of the largest hacks in gaming industry history. While the game previously experienced the 2017 R6DB database attack and Ubisoft faced a cyberattack on internal systems in 2023, neither impacted the in-game economy on this scale. We’re looking at something potentially bigger than even the 2011 PSN attack. We’ll keep you updated as the situation develops.