Tragicomedy
Member
I fired up my Vita for the first time tonight in a few months and updated to firmware 3.0. I left the system plugged into my computer to charge while I proceeded to work on a few other things.
When I checked my email a couple of hours later, I had three separate notices from Sony that $50 transactions had been added to my wallet, for a total of $150. All three emails have the exact same time stamp, so the assumption is that they all happened at the same time. I immediately removed my credit card from the account, changed my password, and added a pin. I don't have any viruses or keyloggers on my PC, and use randomized passwords for every account I have.
I tried to call Sony's customer support, but they're not around at this hour of the night. Some amateur searching did turn up three separate threads on the Sony forums all detailing the exact same event.
Thread #1.
Thread #2.
Thread #3.
The commonality is all three had 3 x $50 transactions added to their wallet. If you read the threads, many of the replies complain of the same thing happening to them. There are some unconfirmed rumors that it may deal with FIFA, but I don't even have that game.
Has this happened to anyone else? Why haven't I heard or read anything about PSN being hacked? What the heck is going on here? I'm calling Sony first thing in the morning and if they don't fix this I'll have my bank cancel the charges for fraudulent activity.
When I checked my email a couple of hours later, I had three separate notices from Sony that $50 transactions had been added to my wallet, for a total of $150. All three emails have the exact same time stamp, so the assumption is that they all happened at the same time. I immediately removed my credit card from the account, changed my password, and added a pin. I don't have any viruses or keyloggers on my PC, and use randomized passwords for every account I have.
I tried to call Sony's customer support, but they're not around at this hour of the night. Some amateur searching did turn up three separate threads on the Sony forums all detailing the exact same event.
Thread #1.
Thread #2.
Thread #3.
The commonality is all three had 3 x $50 transactions added to their wallet. If you read the threads, many of the replies complain of the same thing happening to them. There are some unconfirmed rumors that it may deal with FIFA, but I don't even have that game.
Has this happened to anyone else? Why haven't I heard or read anything about PSN being hacked? What the heck is going on here? I'm calling Sony first thing in the morning and if they don't fix this I'll have my bank cancel the charges for fraudulent activity.