PlayStation and Sony's Blunderous Security Measures

[Naedmi]

Thought I'd make this little thread to vent my frustrations until the live support for PlayStation opens at 6AM. That's right, staying up all night for this.

I only came to the conclusion that my account had been stolen earlier tonight when I had tried to open one of my digitally owned games and being prompted to the sign in screen, after several tries getting an error that I wasn't using the correct sign in ID.

I decided to check my Email, what I saw next was baffling, I was greeted by an email by PlayStation support sent yesterday morning.

"This e-mail confirms that the sign-in ID (E-mail Address) for your Sony Entertainment Network account has been changed."

Yet, I got no validation requests, I got nothing of the sort. I can no longer play any of my digitally owned products, which I may say, I only owned about 3 digital copies.

I read a few similar posts recently, if you have a PlayStation account, you may want to check if it is still yours.

Short version. I lost my account, wasn't given any precaution to the matter, happy that I never added my Debit/Credit cards to the account beforehand, likely never will now.

[Lusus Symphonia]

How on earth did you manage to get your account hacked on a PlayStation? I've had a PSN since 2007 and never once heard anything like this.
Your password wasn't "123" was it?

[Naedmi]

Messaggio originale di Red Monk:

How on earth did you manage to get your account hacked on a PlayStation? I've had a PSN since 2007 and never once heard anything like this.
Your password wasn't "123" was it?

My PSN password is as intricate as any other password that I use on many other sites.

This is also the first time I've ever had an account stolen from me. There have also been many, many Playstation user accounts stolen in the past.

I believe that Sony and Playstation top the rankings in hacked and stolen accounts. I'll find the site which states it.

Edit: There have been over 77 Million Playstation Network accounts stolen, as listed by Wikipedia. This doesn't beat Yahoo though.

Wish I could find the site I used before that listed all of the biggest data breaches, looked sort of like Google earth but it showed a map of all accounts that were affected by the breach.

[novasunshine]

Mine got hacked once too. Good thing I don't use it. My password wasn't some easy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Lusus Symphonia]

Do you sign into PSN on apps or on the phone? you could have some sort of malware on your mobile that fished your data without you knowing.

[Rumpus]

Mine's boxed up. If my account has been touched I swear...

[novasunshine]

Messaggio originale di Rumpus:

Mine's boxed up. If my account has been touched I swear...

My PSVita was also completely untouched.

[Naedmi]

Messaggio originale di Red Monk:

Do you sign into PSN on apps or on the phone? you could have some sort of malware on your mobile that fished your data without you knowing.

Nope and Nope. Only use my phone for gaming reasons when I search up wiki's to get hints and walkthroughs about certain games that I'm playing

I also checked my Email's recent sign in activity, no signs of my Email even being signed into from suspicious locations. How exactly does changing Emails for a PSN account even work then? Just know the email and password, there goes your account and all of the money that you've spent on it.

After all of this, I would say that Steam likely has the best security measures of any online gaming community. My password could actually be "123Password" and still no one would be able to take my account from me.

[Naedmi]

Update, couldn't use live chat for some reason, wouldn't go through once I finished the form, so I submitted a form through email. Checked the support forum as well, seems there are even more people posting about their accounts being stolen than when I last checked.