Attackers Brought about So A lot Havoc Inside Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft Shut Down the Complete Sport

Over the weekend, Ubisoft apparently misplaced management of one in every of its largest video video games, Rainbow Six Siege, as attackers appeared to infiltrate it and seize management of a variety of core capabilities. The brand new bizarro recreation operators created a chaotic free-for-all that Ubisoft apparently couldn’t put to relaxation whereas protecting the sport on-line.

So the sport, a team-oriented tactical first-person shooter type of like Counter-Strike however with an emphasis on destructible environments, was taken down deliberately on Saturday. As of this writing on Sunday, it nonetheless wasn’t again up. There’s no marketing campaign mode for the sport, so there’s nothing to play with the servers down.

There’s no official assertion on the identification of the alleged perpetrators.

A rollback is at the moment ongoing and afterwards, in depth high quality management exams might be executed to make sure the integrity of accounts and effectiveness of modifications. The workforce is concentrated on getting gamers again into the sport as shortly as doable. Please know that this matter is… https://t.co/cG4zBIBBGB

— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 28, 2025

Reasonably ominously, the X account of the malware code and knowledge repository VX-Underground claims that the Rainbow Six Siege assault coincided with a number of wider, and probably extra damaging infiltrations at Ubisoft, rumored to incorporate the theft of proprietary code and probably even non-public consumer information, although none of this has been confirmed. 

According to Bleeping Computer, there has not but been a public launch of details about the character of the Rainbow Six Siege assault, and that publication’s reporting has been drawn from stories posted on-line by gamers.

How a lot havoc was it? Properly, in keeping with one X consumer, the attackers turned the ban announcement pop-ups right into a type of meme ticker, making them drip out the lyrics to “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy.

It’s one factor for Rainbow 6 Siege to be fully taken over by hackers

However for them to even be this inventive 😭 pic.twitter.com/gsuhCVJmxv

— Jake Fortunate (@JakeSucky) December 27, 2025

Extra substantively, Bleeping Laptop says the attackers took management of participant bans and ban reversal, and distributed 2 billion credit within the recreation’s in-game forex, together with an equally economy-destroying quantity of “renoun,” in-game clout factors that additionally operate as a type of forex. All skins and beauty objects had been opened to all gamers as properly.

Credit are bought for precise fiat forex, so, by Bleeping Laptop’s math, two billion credit interprets to roughly $13.33 million—although it’s uncertain anybody was in a position to convert that into an precise, real-world fortune.

With their recreation successfully an asylum run by overtly hostile inmates, Ubisoft took the servers for Rainbow Six Siege, and the accompanying recreation market, offline whereas engineers set about placing all the pieces again collectively. Ubisoft posted on X that gamers wouldn’t be punished for spending the credit the attackers had given them.

➡️ No one might be banned for spending credit obtained. A rollback of all transactions that occurred since 11 AM (UTC time) is underway.

➡️ The ban ticker was turned off in a previous replace. Any messages seen weren’t triggered by us.

➡️ An official R6 ShieldGuard ban wave did… https://t.co/zbPYDJQa3O

— Rainbow Six Siege X (@Rainbow6Game) December 27, 2025

The dangerous information for gamers, nonetheless, is that as of Sunday, engineers were in the process of rolling back all those purchases as a part of the restore effort. 

The latest X post from Rainbow Six Siege as of this writing says “The workforce is concentrated on getting gamers again into the sport as shortly as doable,” and that the “matter is being dealt with with excessive care and due to this fact, timing can’t be assured.”

Gizmodo reached out to Ubisoft for info on whether or not the assault is absolutely extra expansive than simply Rainbow Six Siege, whether or not information was stolen from Ubisoft, and whether or not there may be any info but in regards to the nature of the assault and what vulnerability was exploited. We’ll replace if we hear again.