Ubisoft takes Rainbow Six Siege servers offline after hack
In December 2025, a breach occurred in Rainbow Six Siege in which in-game currency and rare items were handed out arbitrarily and accounts were banned and unbanned. Ubisoft took the game servers offline on all platforms, and the servers came back online on 29 December. Ubisoft then compensated players and announced changes including the introduction of Secure Boot.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Ubisoft
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Arbitrary distribution of in-game currency and rare items, account bans and unbans, and server shutdown on all platforms
- Cause / method
- Hack of game systems
- Location
- France
Timeline
- Servers were taken offline after a hack involving arbitrary distribution of in-game currency and abnormal account sanctions.
- The Rainbow Six Siege servers came back online.
- Ubisoft compensated players for the hack.
- Ubisoft announced major changes including the introduction of Secure Boot.
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