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

G2ThaUNiT 1 day ago
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.

Yeah that was my thought too after reading the article. Ultimately, if your PSN account gets hacked with this method, you have MUCH bigger problems on your hands than just losing your PSN account.



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Shadow1980 7 hours ago

This is what happens when you don't own what you spend money on.

I still buy physical for pretty much everything. Last time I spent money on a digital game was in 2017 when I got Blaster Master Zero for the Switch at launch, and before that was maybe a couple of Virtual Console games on Wii U. I've probably spent less than $30 on digital games total over the past 15 years.

Granted, I could theoretically lose my physical media if someone breaks into my house or there's a fire, but that's what homeowner's insurance is for. It can all be replaced, because there's always a second-hand market where I can re-purchase whatever I lost, and there's no games, movies, or albums I have that are so rare as to be irreplaceable. I don't have to worry about whether a digital storefront still exists, or if I can access my account, or if the platform owner's customer service department is being difficult. I just find a copy for sale and buy it. End of story.



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