Man spends $20,000 on digital games, only to get hacked and lose everything. Sony refuses to help.

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DekutheEvilClown said:

This article is kind of trash. He says he “hacked” his own account in 30 minutes when he actually just did an account recovery with a bot that requested information from him that only he should have access to. He provided an order number from a transaction, he would only have that if he has access to the account already or access to the email address it’s registered to.

So to use this exploit they need to come to your house to find the serial number on your hardware, have access to your credit card details or have access to your email. Any one of those would be a massive problem in an of itself, and your PlayStation account is probably not the only thing in danger.


Having said that, there should be an additional layer of security for this type of recovery.

It's PCMag. They are usually pretty bad. I specifically quoted a part of their article to avoid tricking people. It's pretty hard to have access to four different pieces of information on a PSN account.