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).

Ok, so I think it's a lost cause to recover my save data, but the only save file that I care about is Dragon Quest Builders, since every other game is finished. The way the game works is that there are chapters and on the main menu you can chose to start from the beginning of each chapter. I'm at the very beginning of chapter 3 and I was wondering if there was some sort of website that you can download completed save files from that I could download onto my PS4 with a flash drive, so then I could just go back and start from Chapter 3 again.

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

Your options for saves are ~

PS+

Whatevers salvageable on that hard drive

a thumb drive/external storage((thumb drives are just easiest to move around, cheapest, and the least obtrusive))

If you can't recover your saves from your ps4 you're out of luck. Go into safe mode and rebuild your database. See if that helps.

I already tried rebuilding my database, but that didn't work.

And that's why you shouldn't carry your Japanese console too close to Mount Fuji.

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!

Power at my house can be sketch, so I never use rest mode (and make sure to tell anyone touching the system the same). Auto-downloading patches & updates would be nice, but I won't risk it.

You're fucked.

That's one thing I hated about PS3 and PS4. Unlike every other console, if there's a power outage or something, the console scolds you (You didn't turn the console off properly, blah, blah) then it goes into that system check.

My PS3 phat did that every time I turned it on before I died. I want to turn my PS4 off but it does the auto updates and stuff in sleep mode.

Hope you can get your stuff back

... You need PS+ for cloud backups? Is Xbox the same?

your ps4 is becoming sentient. little by little.