Second large-scale hack for Rainbow Six Siege in week time

7 January 2026

Just a few days ago, our international sister website Legal-Esport.com was quick on the scene to report a huge hack of Rainbow Six Siege. This resulted in numerous players receiving enormous amounts of R6 Credits, which can be used to purchase all kinds of in-game content, like weapons and operator skins, as well as free Alpha Packs and free exclusive skins. It is unclear how many members of the UK esports community were affected by the hack.

In other words, a terrible end to 2025 for developer Ubisoft, who had to temporarily take their Rainbow Six Siege servers offline. It turns out that it wasn’t the end of the misery for the company and the wider community though, as reports are coming in as we speak that the game has just been hit by a second large-scale hack. This time, instead of the hack raining down credits on players, it has resulted in large numbers of players being banned.

Inspired by 6-7 meme

At the moment of writing, it is still unclear what exactly happened to the Rainbow Six Siege servers and why. What we do know, is that it seems like the latest hack has been “inspired” by the viral 6-7 meme that took the online world by storm in 2025. Why does it look like that? Because the bans that were being issued as part of the hack all have a duration of 67 days. On top of that, according to various streamers, they received a notification after reporting their sudden ban stating “Thanks for your report. We wanted to let you know that 67676767 of your reports led to sanctions”.

Rainbow Six Servers taken offline

As a result of the hack, Ubisoft was forced to take their Rainbow Six Siege servers offline for a second time in about a weeks’ time. The company notified its community members soon after the first reports came in, but has not provided any information yet as to the who and why of the latest hack.
“If you received a ban notification between 1 PM EST and 5 PM EST on January 4th, this was not official and can be disregarded”, Ubisoft wrote in an official statement after the hack, “Note that receiving these false notifications does not result in a real ban. The esports blue banner has also been temporarily disabled following reports of unofficial messaging. With the team back at full capacity, we are working on resolving recent issues such as the synchronization errors and server disconnects.”

No stolen data

Two large-scale hacks in quick succession are obviously not good news for Rainbow Six Siege and Ubisoft, as players and streamers quickly started worrying about possible theft of player data. More and more of them are understandably worried about whether the game is still safe to play at this point. So far, Ubisoft has not made any mention of stolen player data though, which is something they very likely would have done immediately if it was the case, if only to avoid legal repercussion later on.