List of PSN data breaches - "It's for security"

[Hero Unit]

April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach

Don't worry everyone, your data will be secure with PSN and Sony!

[WadeBtw]

Thanks for copy and pasting a front page review.

[Osama Bin Trippin]

aeiou

[Metal The Dragon]

It's amazing watching these companies shoot themselves in the foot. It was battle state games and now Helldivers 2

[WadeBtw]

Originally posted by Hero Unit:

Originally posted by WadeBtw:

Thanks for copy and pasting a front page review.

More awareness is never a bad thing.

just baiting awards honestly

[hatchet5891]

Find a company that has never had a data breach. Good luck, you better start deleting all your online accounts in fear.

[Northy]

wait until this guys learns basically every major company on this planet has a data breach basically every waking moment. Microsofts list is way longer, Valve has data breaches, ubisoft, epic, you name a major company it has data breaches so don't go around acting like sony breaches are this big scary thing. In fact be more happy that Sony even shares when they have these happen

[SuaveMonke]

Originally posted by WadeBtw:

Originally posted by Hero Unit:

More awareness is never a bad thing.

just baiting awards honestly

I read posts on the discussion board, I don't regularly read reviews of a game I already own. Whether it's for awards or not, more awareness is good.

[EdnightPT]

it is a SONY GAME so just suck it in ....

[SuaveMonke]

Originally posted by EdnightPT:

it is a SONY GAME so just suck it in ....

It's not just a Sony game, it's a dead game now.

[balage7919]

L sony

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

If you link your burner account to your hell diver's 2 account and your PSN account gets banned for any reason, you won't be able to play your PC games.

[BiscuitTheCat]

I agree with you in some way OP. Sony sucks with their data security and it's defo a bad thing to require a Sony account.

However, you are misinterpreting what it was meant when they said "for security". It's for security within the game, like banning hackers etc. Just makes it easier if everyone is on the same ecosystem and they probably have better tools to find and ban accounts that break rules, hack, etc.

[Eightball]

Just as secure with Tik-Tok! I assure you it is.

[FluffyPinkDecoyBunny]

Ah, the PSN. Introduced with the release of the PS3.

I never personally used the PSN to purchase anything off the PSN. I had no SSN, bank cards and next to zero personal information (other than name, email and a password) setup. After that first big PSN hack, Playstation paid for people to have 12 months (if memory serves me right) of identity/credit protection service. That was back in 2011.

To this day I still get a monthly email from the company that Playstation set us up with back in 2011. I'm not getting charged for it, all I know is that every email that comes my way tells me that there has been no detection of fraudulent activity against my personal information.

[Carrion]

Im currently requesting a refund as i suggest others to do. I really liked this game but I refuse to give my personal info to a company with a history of consistent breaches