Rainbow Six Siege Players Hit With 67-Day Ban After Another Apparent Hack

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After a recent hack over the Christmas holiday, Rainbow Six Siege players are being unfairly banned due to a connection with the strange and widely-known ‘6-7’ meme.

Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege is experiencing hacking issues, according to The Gamer. Players are receiving unexpected 67-day bans, with reports surfacing on social media that accounts are being flagged for unspecified “harassment” and removed from online play.

VarsityGaming, a popular content creator who has been joking about the recent hack since it occurred on January 4th, confirmed the 67-day ban on their social media, indicating that the game may be unavailable for another two days.

Rainbow Six Siege servers are still down after 16 hours since the recent hacking attack – this has happened before. Varsitygaming, a streamer who received a 67-day ban, is explaining how he’s still able to find matches despite the ban. It seems like…

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Rainbow Six Siege is currently experiencing problems across all platforms, according to Ubisoft’s official service status page. Players are having trouble connecting to the game, accessing the in-game store, and finding matches. Ubisoft is looking into the issues and appreciates players’ understanding.

The number ’67’ recently became a strange internet trend, and sometimes you’ll even see it written as a ridiculously long string of ’67s’ online. It started in early 2025, boosted by rapper Skrilla and basketball player LaMelo Ball (who is six feet seven inches tall). A person named Maverick Trevillian, nicknamed the “67 Kid,” really helped it go viral. The joke is completely meaningless – it doesn’t have any deeper meaning or connection to anything serious. In fact, that’s the point! Its popularity comes from being utterly absurd and a way for younger people to playfully annoy older generations.

This new issue follows a recent two-day outage of Rainbow Six Siege right after Christmas. The BBC reported that the game’s servers were taken offline from December 27th to 28th because of a flood of in-game currency, estimated to be worth millions. Ubisoft stated they would be investigating and fixing the problem over the next two weeks. It’s currently unknown whether this latest hack is connected to the previous one.

Last year, Rainbow Six Siege was updated and rebranded as Rainbow Six Siege X. This update included many improvements to the game, attracting a large number of both new and returning players. On June 10, 2025, the game reached 142,000 players playing at the same time on Steam. While this is slightly below its all-time peak of 201,933 from May 17, 2024, it’s a remarkable achievement for a game that’s been around for ten years.

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2026-01-05 21:10