Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack

Dec 28, 2025 11:42 PM - 5 months ago 151666

Terrence O'Brien

is the Verge’s play editor. He has complete 18 years of experience, including 10 years arsenic managing editor astatine Engadget.

Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game’s servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control complete a important chunk of the game’s systems, including the expertise to prohibition and unban users, sending custom messages to prohibition ticker, unlocking each in-game items, and granting each subordinate 2 cardinal R6 Credits and Renown.

Ubisoft sells R6 credits successful its store, pricing 15,000 of them astatine $99.99. That intends the existent rate worth of 2 cardinal R6 credits is astir $13.33 million.

Ubisoft made it clear that cipher would beryllium punished for spending immoderate credits they received. But, immoderate transactions made aft 11:ooAM UTC connected Saturday (6AM ET) will beryllium rolled back to debar abuse. At the clip of this writing, work had yet to beryllium restored. We’ve reached retired to Ubisoft for remark and will update if and erstwhile they respond.

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