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Forums - Sony Discussion - Change Your PSN Passwords Right Now! Multiple Reports Of PSN Hacked

This was a good reminder to enable two-factor authentication, but I don't think there's anything going on right now. If there's accounts being hacked, it's probably because some other service was hacked and fools were using the same password for multiple services.

People, start using password managers already! They make it easy to have a unique password for each service, which is probably the single most important thing about computer security. With a password manager, you only have to remember one master password, which should be very good. For easy use, there's online password managers (such as LastPass), but if for some reason you don't trust them, there's offline solutions as well. They're not as convenient, but they're still easy to use. KeePass is one such solution.

Did I already emphasize enough that reusing passwords is extremely dangerous? At the very least, you should use a different password for your email accounts. If anyone ever gets access to your email account, you can say goodbye to all of your other accounts as well because of password reset functionality. And that goes for ALL your email accounts pretty much, because your primary email account probably has some secondary email account set, and if anyone ever gets access to your secondary email account, there goes your primary email account as well.

tl;dr. Use a different password for each service, or at the very least for your email accounts. Use a password manager if you have to.

EDIT: Two-factor authentication also helps a lot, because then knowing your password isn't enough anymore. If it works by phone, someone needs access to your phone to gain access to your account. If it works by email, two-factor authentication is essentially as secure as your email account.



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I did when I heard the news that they were hacked again, had nothing to do with crapgamer.



OdinHades said:
You should change your passwords every 3-6 months anyway.

That doesn't matter unless you're reusing the same password everywhere, which can be very dangerous. Changing passwords regularly doesn't offer any clear benefits in most cases.



The Russians are behind this.



Cool story bro.



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Probably a better video for the OP, Explains on it some rather than just states it. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2_2DZZGWs



WoodenPints said:
Probably a better video for the OP, Explains on it some rather than just states it. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2_2DZZGWs

Better video or not, but I kind of watched the video in the first post because it was short. This is already much longer than I would be interested in watching, and I'd personally skip this one. If anyone has a textual source as well, that would be great.



Either way, I guess anyone should just enable two-factor authentication on their account. Already did it a month ago, so I'm really way more relaxed about it now.



Versus_Evil said:
Snoopy, it's time to stop linking your YouTube channel.

Crapgamer is hardly snooping around here!  :P