My PS4 data deleted itself.

[Zkuq]

aLkaLiNE said:

Zkuq said:

You don't just 'get hacked' randomly very easily. Most likely in those cases they were reusing the same password for multiple services, including some that got hacked earlier, and never bothered to change their password on PSN. Then once the hacker finds out the password, they're going to try it on other services, and probably succeed on some service. There's other ways too, but I bet that's the most common reason. Solution? Use a different password on every single service. Preferably it should be a completely different password, but as long as it's different, even if just by one symbol, it's already something. Use a password manager if you need to (and let's be honest, you need to, unless you're barely using any services, because a typical person uses a ton of services).

I wasn't trying to imply that it's easy to get hacked, and I don't really care how it happens, but it does happen so a friendly reminder about 2FA seemed necessary. FWIW I have yet to be compromised despite using slight variations of the same password for like.... 8 years >_> it's just a really fucked up password that is gibberish and numbers lol

Yeah, I just wanted to point out that there's no simple weakness in PSN that gets people hacked. I'm just preaching about the importance of not reusing passwords because that's probably the most common way people get 'hacked'. Even slight variations in passwords are probably a big help because I'm guessing that most hackers either won't mutate the passwords they know or it's not very high on their todo-list. As long as you can't just try exactly the same password everywhere, you should already be relatively safe. Gibberish is good!