Rainbow Six Siege X, a web based multiplayer tactical shooter set within the Tom Clancy online game universe, has suffered a novel server-side hack. The Ubisoft-developed title was seized by unknown means yesterday, leading to a rogue giveaway of in-game forex definitely worth the equal of hundreds of thousands of real-world {dollars}.
Naturally, it did not take lengthy for gamers to note the discrepancy in gameplay, with many taking to the web to debate the sudden availability of recent playable characters, customization gadgets, and skins accessible by way of their private accounts. Others, it appears, went on buying sprees to spend the credit that had been hacked into their accounts.
Along with the huge quantities of credit and customization skins that had been deposited into gamers’ palms, the Rainbow Six Siege X hacker(s) seem to have additionally banned and unbanned giant quantities of gamers, whereas additionally utilizing the sport’s ban feed to position unrelated phrases and strings of textual content on-screen.
- Launched
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June 10, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood, Drug Reference, Robust Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
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Ubisoft Montreal
- Writer(s)
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Ubisoft
- Multiplayer
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On-line Multiplayer, On-line Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
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All platforms
- Cross Save
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All platforms
Rainbow Six Siege X has rebounded
Servers are actually again up and working
In response to yesterday’s Rainbow Six Siege X server hack, Ubisoft opted to briefly take down the sport’s servers of their entirety, rendering the sport unplayable. As per statements made by the sport group on social media website X, a rollback to a earlier non-hacked state of the sport has been efficiently performed.
Ubisoft says that the sport’s Market will stay shut down “till additional discover” whereas investigations and stock corrections proceed. It has additionally confirmed that gamers won’t be penalized or banned from the sport in the event that they cashed in hacked funds on in-game gadgets. After all, mentioned gadgets are now not out there as of the server rollback, and non-authorized credit score tokens are additionally gone.
Steam metrics present that Rainbow Six Siege X has rebounded by way of its post-shutdown recognition, with a stabilization again to its pre-hack concurrent participant base (through Tom’s {Hardware}). Because of the nature of server-side updates, it’d take a while for all gamers to regain full entry to the sport in its entirety, and a few legitimately obtained in-game purchases made in the course of the hack may take time to be sorted by way of and processed.
