Sony is hardly the only gaming company leaking data like a sieve. “The main concern is once again, due to lack of proper application relationship management, mainstream personal data has again been potentially stolen with malicious intent.” Cyberattacks on Gaming Industry Spike Dramatically “There are many concerns around these console IDs being leaked, not the least the impact of potentially minor or underage user credentials being now out on the Dark Web,” Kuehn added. She added that this an example of a company’s lack of appropriate security protections and real-time visibility into their sensitive data. “While it has not yet been confirmed that a data leak of PS3 IDs is correlated with the user bans on the PS3 network, this underscores the importance for all businesses to ensure enterprise-wide visibility of this type of sensitive data, to enable the facilitation of more robust real time security controls,” Kate Kuehn, researcher with vArmour, told Threatpost. Sony has not responded to Threatpost’s request for comment or confirmed a connection between the PS3 ID breach and player reports of being locked out of the platform. “If it’s not a console ID leak then what the hell is going on?” “This is very worrying, if it’s true that console IDs have been leaked then over the next few months, I think we will see a huge increase in this happening, I can’t think of what Sony could do to stop this issue?” the person wrote. ‘If It’s Not a Console ID Leak, What the Hell is Going On?’ The player added that Sony should be doing more to explain the issue and stop it. I signed in fine about 2 hours ago and all I did was use Netflix.” “My account is fine, I can log in on my other PS3, but my main PS3 has got a ban. “This has just happened to me now, tried to sign in and it says the console has being banned or temporarily suspended,” the user wrote. It appears threat actors have started using the stolen PS3 console IDs for malicious purposes, causing the legitimate players to get banned.Īnother player on the PSNProfies forum put the stolen PS3 IDs and the ban together back on June 18.
After enabling two-factor authentication (2FA), one player was able to sign back in without issue, according to posts on the PS3 subreddit, which includes a link to instructions on how to opt into 2FA on the PS3. Now, several weeks later, players on PlayStation Network message boards are complaining that they can’t sign on and are receiving the error message 8071006. Sony is depicted in his reveal video as the hind end of a rhinoceros defecating, for a general idea of the reaction posted on April 18 for non-Spanish speakers.
Sony reportedly left a folder with every PS3 console ID online unsecured, and it was discovered and reported by a Spanish YouTuber with the handle “The WizWiki” in mid-April.
This is just the latest in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers.
A reported breach of a Sony folder containing the serial ID numbers for every PlayStation 3 console appears to have led to users being inexplicably banned from the platform.