Just a week after Ubisoft finished picking up the pieces of a major Rainbow 6 Siege hack that saw billions of dollars of in-game money handed out to players, the game is in chaos all over again. This time, as spotted by TheGamer, the alleged infiltrators are issuing illegitimate bans to players. Bans that last for 67 days. Do you see what they did there?
On December 27, hackers got into Rainbow 6 Siege and caused all manner of mischief, primarily distributing vast amounts of in-game money, super-expensive items and weapon skins, forcing the game offline as the servers were rolled back to before the attack. At the same time, the game’s Marketplace was taken offline while the team investigated what had gone wrong.
Now, barely a week later, a new attack is seeing players reporting their accounts are being banned under the category of “Harassment Offense,” with the bans lasting a hilarious 67 days. This became much more widely known once high-profile streamer VarsityGaming found out he was a target of the meme-driven ban during a recent broadcast.
At the time of writing Ubisoft has not posted to any of its social media accounts to acknowledge the issue on this occasion, despite seemingly being aware of the incident since Sunday, January 4. In fact, the official X account hasn’t been updated since December 29, when it posted to say queue times were reducing following issues after the previous rollback. There has also been no word from Ubisoft regarding the last attack and the current state of the Marketplace.
When we asked for further details ahead of the New Year, especially regarding whether Ubisoft knew if the attacks had compromised any player accounts, the company only said, “We’re still investigating what’s happened and can only direct you to the official X account for the game for updates at this time.” That would be the official X account that hasn’t been posted to since.
At the time of writing, R6 is offline once again, with all formats listing “Degraded” or “Outage” across the board.
As I suggested last week, silence is the worst possible response to such incidents, allowing rumors to spread wildly across X and Reddit. Yet again, the unsubstantiated claim that the Rainbow Six Siege source code has been stolen is being circulated around online and accepted by some players as fact. Last time there was delayed communication, it was during the winter break period. This time, five days into the New Year, there’s still been complete silence. The void has allowed a lot of players to vent their frustration through cynical gags.
This potentially suggests that whatever means the hackers used to get into Siege‘s servers last time around has yet to be plugged, which raises further questions about the game’s overall security and whether players’ account information has been affected. Ubisoft has not yet responded to follow-up requests for comment.
Either way, an extended series of outages like this is bad news for Ubisoft during such a financially peculiar time, especially after a previous R6 issue significantly harmed earning predictions in mid-2025.
