Thousands of gamers just got millions in free money in massive Ubisoft hack

Rainbow Six Siege X, an online multiplayer tactical shooter set in the Tom Clancy video game universe, has suffered a novel server-side hack. The Ubisoft-developed title was seized by unknown means yesterday, resulting in a rogue giveaway of in-game currency worth the equivalent of millions of real-world dollars.

Naturally, it didn’t take long for players to notice the discrepancy in gameplay, with many taking to the internet to discuss the sudden availability of new playable characters, customization items, and skins accessible through their personal accounts. Others, it seems, went on shopping sprees to spend the credits that were hacked into their accounts.

In addition to the massive amounts of credits and customization skins that were deposited into players’ hands, the Rainbow Six Siege X hacker(s) appear to have also banned and unbanned large amounts of players, while also using the game’s ban feed to place unrelated phrases and strings of text on-screen.

Systems

Released

June 10, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ / Blood, Drug Reference, Strong Language, Violence

Developer(s)

Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher(s)

Ubisoft

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op

Cross-Platform Play

All platforms

Cross Save

All platforms

Rainbow Six Siege X has rebounded

Servers are now back up and running

Credit: Ubisoft / Steam

In response to yesterday’s Rainbow Six Siege X server hack, Ubisoft opted to temporarily take down the game’s servers in their entirety, rendering the game unplayable. As per statements made by the game team on social media site X, a rollback to a previous non-hacked state of the game has been successfully conducted.

Ubisoft says that the game’s Marketplace will remain shut down “until further notice” while investigations and inventory corrections continue. It has also confirmed that players will not be penalized or banned from the game if they cashed in hacked funds on in-game items. Of course, said items are no longer available as of the server rollback, and non-authorized credit tokens are also gone.

Steam metrics show that Rainbow Six Siege X has rebounded in terms of its post-shutdown popularity, with a stabilization back to its pre-hack concurrent player base (via Tom’s Hardware). Due to the nature of server-side updates, it might take some time for all players to regain full access to the game in its entirety, and some legitimately obtained in-game purchases made during the hack might take time to be sorted through and processed.