Rainbow Six Siege is Down Worldwide, and Players Are Getting Billions of Credits

Rainbow Six Siege had a messy weekend. Players started reporting accounts getting flooded with billions of in-game credits, rare cosmetics, and even developer-only skins. Then things got worse: random bans, strange ban-feed messages, and global outages across platforms.

Ubisoft has acknowledged an "incident" and says teams are working on it. But the community is reading between the lines, because this doesn't look like your usual "servers are a bit slow" moment.

What’s happening right now

Ubisoft’s own service status shows widespread problems, and players are reporting account changes that shouldn’t be possible from the outside.

• Reports include:
  • Billions of R6 Credits and Renown appearing on accounts
  • Thousands of Alpha Packs showing up
  • Rare cosmetics and “dev-only” skins being unlocked
  • Random bans and unbans hitting accounts

This is why the word “exploit” is being thrown around so much. When accounts get altered in real time, people stop believing it’s just “server instability” and start worrying about the systems behind the servers.

Ubisoft says it’s an “incident” (and that’s annoyed everyone)

Ubisoft (via the official Rainbow Six account) has publicly acknowledged there’s a problem, but the phrasing has been careful.

• What Ubisoft has said so far:
  • It’s aware of an incident affecting Rainbow Six Siege
  • Teams are working on a resolution
  • Updates will follow when available
• What Ubisoft hasn’t said (publicly, in that statement):
  • “hack”
  • “breach”
  • “security issue”

That wording has landed badly with players who feel like this is being downplayed. And honestly, if your community is telling each other to stay offline to protect their accounts, “server incident” starts sounding like PR coping.

The outage details: what’s down across platforms

According to the reporting, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege service status shows critical issues across major platforms, not just one.

• Platforms affected (as listed):
  • PC
  • PS4 / PS5
  • Xbox One / Xbox Series X|S
• Services reportedly impacted:
  • Authentication/login
  • Matchmaking
  • In-game store access
  • General connectivity marked as degraded

Also important: there’s no public timeline for when things will be fully back. Which is rough if you just wanted a quick match, and even rougher if you’re worried your account is about to get “fixed” with a rollback.

You can keep an eye on Ubisoft’s official status page here.

What players should do (especially if you value your account)

This is one of those times where doing nothing is the smart move.

• Community advice has been consistent:
  • Don’t log in until Ubisoft confirms it’s resolved
  • Don’t spend any surprise Credits or Renown
  • Assume anything gained during the chaos may get removed later
  • Expect possible rollbacks

The fear isn’t just losing the “free” stuff. It’s getting caught in automated enforcement if you spend currency that appeared out of nowhere. Even if you didn’t ask for it. Even if you thought it was just a visual glitch.

And yes, it’s ridiculous that players even have to think like this. But here we are.

Why this matters beyond one bad weekend

Rainbow Six Siege is a live-service game. That means the “account layer” (inventory, currency, bans, store) is basically the whole business.

• If the claims are accurate, the impact could include:
  • Rollbacks that wipe progress and purchases from a certain window
  • False bans that take days (or longer) to reverse
  • Marketplace/store issues, since currency and items were affected
  • A trust hit that’s hard to undo, even after servers recover

It also lands at an awkward time for Ubisoft, which is clearly still betting big on long-running online games.

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