Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans
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If you were planning on using this fine Sunday afternoon to jump into Rainbow Six Siege, hoping that the Christmas week hack had come and gone, you might want to alter your plans.
Because as it stands, it appears that the game is being hacked once more. This time, instead of free credits, hackers are banning people for — wait for it — 67 days, a reference to the extremely popular 6-7 meme.
As first shared on social media, Ubisoft’s live-service Tom Clancy title has once again been compromised, with players reporting “Harassment Offense” bans for 67 days.
That much was amplified by content creator VarsityGaming, who logged onto Siege only to find that their account had a similar 67-day ban.
Things on Ubisoft’s own status website don’t look much better, as every platform that Siege is on (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One) are all reporting unplanned issues, including outages for Matchmaking, the In-Game Store and Authentication itself. The Connectivity alone to servers is being marked as “Degraded.”
“Some issues are being investigated,” the website reads. “Thank you for your patience.”
For now, players are encouraging each other to use the designated R6Fix website to report issues. So far, 1,206 players say they have the same issue, making the issue a “Critical” level fix.
“This has been going on for too long,” one claimant wrote.
Rainbow Six Siege Has Had A Rough Go Of Things As Of Late
Things in Siege first reached a breaking point on Dec. 27, when a major breach was reported in which hackers rewarded players with 2 billion in credits while also hijacking the game’s log to throw digs at Ubisoft employees and CEO Yves Guillemot.
During that same breach, thousands of players saw themselves banned and unbanned without reason or warning. Ubisoft eventually froze the servers to attempt to remedy the issue, but the damage had largely been done.
A day later, Ubisoft acknowledged what had happened and let players know that those who spent the credits wouldn’t face punishment. The rest of the credits, spent or unspent, would be rolled back.
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The company stressed that “extensive quality control tests will be executed to ensure the integrity of accounts and effectiveness of changes” and that it will handle the matter with “extreme care.”
As of this moment, the company has not made an updated statement in response to the multiple reports of another breach.
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