PSN hack lets users unban themselves, ban others

[alekth]

twesterm said:

So after reading this, this is a little scary because it does make complete sense in how it works:

http://www.psnathome.com/general/ps3-hackers-can-now-ban-legitimate-users-and-unban-consoles.html

• 1. Hacker gets banned for using custom firmware fair enough, well deserved
• 2. Hacker goes to a forum and grabs a random PSN username from forum tags but he needs a random email address to log in
• 3. Hacker changes their console ID to a random ID and the forum users user name only it can't be random, he needs an ID that actually belongs to some PS3
• 4. Hacker plays as random forum user name until they get themselves and random forum user banned. come to think of it, he also needs a password for that account
• 5. Go to step 2

While there are no cases of anyone doing this, it's apparently know that the person using custom firmware can modify and send whatever information, including PSN username and console ID, they want to Sony.

That's actually enough to make me take my PSN tag off my sig (and not a big deal since I haven't updated it for probably close to a year).

We're all doomed, in 24 hours it's all over as per that article, never mind that if one is going to brute force their way through IDs looking for a working one, it would be more like years. But hey those gaming news sites need their clicks with some sensational story.

And since it's so easy to hack random numbers looking for a legitimate one, let's just go ahead and create gazillions of PSN and Live voucher codes, takes 24 hours!