Rainbow Six Sieged: Hackers Force Game To Be Shut Down
December 27, 2025
What might have looked like a post-Christmas miracle for some in Rainbow Six Siege has turned out to be a catastrophic overtaking by hackers. On Saturday, Rainbow Six Siege’s live servers were breached by an unknown entity. Unlike most hacks related to live-service games, it appears that Siege’s entire database has been exposed, with all players affected by this breach. The Rainbow Six Siege dev team had no choice but to shut down the servers to try and resolve the ongoing hacking issues.
How Siege Players Have Been Affected (And Potential Future Ramifications)
One of the most significant impacts of the Rainbow Six Siege hacking was the distribution of billions of in-game currency, effectively destroying the economy of the game. While players were able to use said currency while the game was still live, there is no chance that players will have access to that same number of Renown or R6 Credits once the servers are back up again. And despite what some have said, players will not be banned for any use of those illegitimate funds while they were available.
Realistically, Ubisoft will likely be forced to tap into a backup server, which would see all accounts reset to what they looked like prior to the hacking incident. This is really the only approach that makes sense at this point. The currency issues aside, players were also given access to many rare skins which probably isn’t as easy to roll back as a bunch of numbers. Even beyond that, players experienced mass waves of banning and unbanning, leaving Rainbow Six Siege in a completely messy state.
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In terms of security, players shouldn’t be too concerned at the moment. While it makes sense to change your password once Ubisoft patches things up, that side of things, from what we can tell, hasn’t been outright exposed. Rainbow Six Siege getting hacked to the extent that it did may mean that more malicious actions could be soon to come, but that is strictly hypothetical. For the moment, it’s only Ubisoft that needs to get its act together. A breach this bad is never a good sign.
