Rainbow Six Siege X has apparently been breached again (see what I did there?) following a previous hack that took place over the holidays, with players reporting unwarranted and lengthy bans from it.
On Dec. 27, the free-to-play FPS was taken over in a massive server breach that saw the hackers reward players with billions of paid currency for free, along with spamming the in-game messaging system. The game had to be taken down to fix the issue, but now, it appears to be suffering some similar issues from hackers who are memeing once more.
This time, the hackers are issuing 67-day bans to players. Yeah, it’s the annoying six-seven meme again, following us into 2026 because nothing is sacred anymore. Players began to post about the bans yesterday, and the issue has continued into the new week, causing some serious concern.
Ubisoft’s server status page for the game shows “some issues” that are “being investigated,” including Connectivity listed as “Degraded” while Authentication, In-Game Store, and Matchmaking are listed with an “Outage” across all of the game’s platforms. Yikes.
So far, there has been no update from Ubisoft’s support account nor the official accounts for the game, but the issues with the servers appear to be related to whatever is happening now with the hack. And judging by how the company addressed the last issue from December, which included bringing the game offline to fix the problems, it appears to be another breach.
December’s hack was allegedly a diversion to steal info from the publisher, so if this is yet another breach that’s affecting the game and its players so quickly after, there may be some big repercussions behind the scenes.
For now, I’d say maybe take a break from the title for a while until its security is improved, because two substantial breaches in the course of a couple weeks is pretty scary.
