January 6, 2026 at 4:10am PT This article has been updated with official statements from Ubisoft, one posted on social media and one provided to PCGamesN. Information on Siege's server status has also been updated.
January 5, 2026 at 9:37am PT This article has been updated with more evidence of an apparent hack of Rainbow Six Siege's servers.
While every game developer hopes for a peaceful, drama-free Christmas period, such a luxury wasn't afforded to Ubisoft last week. A huge breach of Rainbow Six Siege X saw hackers bestow players with mountains of in-game currency, which resulted in Ubi taking the game offline, performing a server rollback, and keeping its marketplace locked down before returning things to some kind of normality more than a day later. However, just a week on, it appears that Siege has been targeted again. While not as broad an issue this time around, it's just as concerning and embarrassing. Streamers are being issued messages notifying them of in-game bans for harassment, and the 67-day duration appears to be a nod to the now infamous 6-7 meme.
When it comes to intense, competitive multiplayer action, Rainbow Six Siege remains one of the best FPS games around. Its rebrand to Siege X last year celebrated not just its tenth birthday, but to also brought big visual overhauls, added a permanent new mode, and most importantly, opened up a huge slice of the experience for free. 2025 was a momentous year for the game, but it didn't expect to end up fighting a massive fire right at the end.
December's breach saw players issued billions in in-game currency and hit with waves of nonsense bans. Ubisoft swiftly shut the game down to fix the issues and rollback its servers to remove any illegitimate currency and account suspensions, cautiously opening the game back up more than 24 hours later but keeping its marketplace closed.
Now it appears that hackers have wormed their way into Siege's servers once again. While not quite as catastrophic and widespread as the original breach, this time players have been issued notifications of a 67-day ban for a "harassment offence."
One of the first and most notable to be hit with this was Siege streamer Chris 'VarsityGaming,' who encountered the message on stream. However, it was quickly apparent that this was not a legitimate ban - and not only because of the clear 6-7 reference. VarsityGaming could still queue for ranked matches, and on restarting his game the message disappeared. However, new ones would appear. A modified version of the message you receive after reporting someone in-game mentions how 67,676,767 of VarsityGaming's reports have led to action. Another notification simply reads "some nice text."
While this is a more targeted issue, it still shows that there are some serious weaknesses and holes in Siege's server security that can still be exploited.
@varsitygamingtv SIEGE IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN AGAIN #siegetips #rainbowsixsiegetips #rainbowsixsiege #r6 #r6tips #tenfoldpursuit #siegex #siege ♬ original sound - VarsityGaming
Following this flurry of 'bans,' other streamers have been targeted with notifications from those behind the hack. 'YazzD' shared a screenshot of their stream on X, in which a message simply reading "you are being HACKED" appears in a blue banner at the top of her screen that is typically used for Siege esports notifications.
Similarly, a clip shared by 'Rasco100' shows their banner being updated in real time. The message first reads "hey furry princess" before switching to "you're such a cute furry." They then challenge the hacker to type the number seven as a test to see if they are watching his stream, and the banner updates to simply show "7."
SIEGE IS HACKED AND THEY DID THIS??? pic.twitter.com/UfhgbepAFf
- Rasco (@rasco100) January 5, 2026
The official Siege server status page also initially showed that, across all platforms, there were authentication and matchmaking outages alongside the in-game store outage that resulted from last week's issues. Siege's connectivity status was also shown as 'degraded.' However, Ubisoft appears to have now resolved the issues, with everything appearing normal as of Tuesday, January 6.
In a post on X, Ubisoft has confirmed that players can ignore any ban notifications that were received "between 1 PM EST and 5 PM EST on January 4th," which is when the 67-day suspension messages were being pushed to players. It also says that the "the esports blue banner has also been temporarily disabled following reports of unofficial messaging."
In a separate statement provided to PCGamesN, Ubisoft confirms that the incidents over the Christmas period and this week were the result of a "cyberattack."
"Rainbow Six Siege recently experienced a cyberattack causing limited disruptions, including fake ban notifications and unauthorized credit grants," it says. "Following that incident, some players have received new false ban notifications on January 4 ; these were not official and did not result in an actual ban. Additionally, the esports blue banner has been temporarily disabled following reports of unofficial messaging. While we are continuing our investigation, as of this time, there is no indication that any personal data nor source code was compromised as a result of this incident. We are actively working to resolve these issues, including synchronization errors and server disconnects, and are taking all necessary actions to protect the game and the Siege community."
While all multiplayer games are subject to cheaters and hackers at some stage, it's rare to see issues as severe as the ones suffered by Rainbow Six Siege X in the last couple of weeks. Even though the consequences of this most recent breach are far less detrimental, it's clear Ubisoft has some major work to do when it comes to security.