*Rainbow Six Siege* players are facing another significant outage and wave of unjustified suspensions, coming shortly after reports of a widespread hack that plagued the servers over the Christmas weekend. This time, an unknown malicious entity appears to be exploiting the system to issue lengthy bans that have left many users locked out of Ubisoft’s tactical shooter.
Accounts flagged in this security breach are being suspended for exactly 67 days, reportedly citing an unproven “harassment offense” as the cause for the termination from matchmaking. The highly specific ban duration is believed to be a nonsensical reference to a popular “6-7” meme within the *Siege* community. Reports of these sudden suspensions began flooding social media platforms around January 4th.
The community reaction has been strong, with popular content creators confirming the extent of the issue. *Siege* personality VarsityGaming corroborated the details of the bizarre 67-day ban wave on social media, even making light of the fact that affected players are effectively locked out of the game for more than two months. This marks the second major incident in quick succession highlighting significant vulnerabilities within the game’s server security and integrity.