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[shinobi602]

Haven't gotten any notifications on mine yet...hopefully not a sign of things to come.

Many PlayStation Network users in the US today may have to reset their account password.

As posted in the official PlayStation community forum, Sony has reacted to "irregular activity" with some users' accounts. MercuryV of PlayStation Moderation and Support said, "If you are getting an error that your PSN account password is incorrect, you may need to reset it. We routinely monitor for irregular activity, and if such activity is detected, we may sometimes reset passwords of affected SEN accounts to protect consumers and their account information."

According to VG247, a similar requirement took place in EU, and "only a small number of users" experienced any sort of affect from the irregular activity.

PSU

 

[Permanently A]

Hopefully nothing malicious

 

[ProfessorMoran]

Better safe than sorry.

 

[bananafactory]

EDIT: Joking. Hopefully nothing on the scale of the incident a few years back.

 

[iceatcs]

MS, leave it alone.

 

[PBY]

Fuuuuuu

Pls let my info be safe :/

 

[hEist]

The power of the cloud.

 

[StingX2]

Had to reset mine, I guess Sony was unhappy I stopped playing Kingdom Hearts for a few hours

 

[FroJay]

Noticed this today. My girlfriend had to change her account password. Doesn't make any sense as I'm the one paying for + on my account and use the system much more than she does. Found it weird, but she was the only one in our house who needed a password change.

 

[CambriaRising]

Both me and my roommate had to change ours. Hopefully it's nothing serious.

 

[ClearData]

Changing my password wasn't more than a 5 minute inconvenience. I'd rather they be cautious then let some hacker get a hold of my personal information. I am surprised that my PS3 asked for my new credentials and my PS4 was business as usual though. Maybe the servers are more automatically configured for the latter.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Nothing here yet, but maybe I'll change it just to be proactive.

 

[iceatcs]

Noticed this today. My girlfriend had to change her account password. Doesn't make any sense as I'm the one paying for + on my account and use the system much more than she does. Found it weird, but she was the only one in our house who needed a password change.

Did she keep the CC detail in the account? Valuable accounts for hackers allow to buy/sell FIFA coin.

I didn't get any email but my housemate does. It look like because his account has the CC detail and I don't

 

[McDougles]

I think we've had at least 3 threads on this topic today. Hopefully it's not too serious a problem.

 

[Omega]

if they monitor this stuff, why not delete the accounts that haven't been touched since 2007 to free up some names for people?

never understood why there are so many accounts on XBL and PSN with 0GS and no trophies.

 

[jsnepo]

So what is irregular activity anyway?

 

[macewank]

http://www.jp.playstation.com/info/support/nr_20131122_psn_sen.html?ref=rss

Translation indicates they may have been hacked/compromised again. Though, it does not appear to be anywhere near the level of intrusion as last time.

 

[Shinypogs]

I had to reset mine today, it wasn't a huge deal or hassle to be honest. I do wish we knew what these so called irregular activities were though.

 

[Toki767]

Pretty sure this is old. At least, we've had a bunch of threads about this subject.

 

[WelfareBurger]

Didn't something like this happen before? I think they detected some mass log-ins and resetted those passwords.

 

[Kvik]

I wish more online services would provide 2FA for the sake of security. They should use the Google Authenticator app, even, like GW2.

 

[B-Ri]

i figure my account was accessed. My email and password combo was found on that huge adobe link, which also happened to be my PSN login info as well.

Good catch on their part, they seem to have noticed weird activity and protected my account.

 

[Loudninja]

Pretty sure this is old. At least, we've had a bunch of threads about this subject.

We had one last week as well.

I think they are being overly cautions after what happen before.

 

[thefreecheese]

Didn't realize this was a thing... Just spent the last hour creating random, secure passwords for every single one of my accounts after thinking my account was hacked. Now I feel stupid and I have a notebook page filled top to bottom with all of these passwords I'll never remember.

 

[Randam]

I think we've had at least 3 threads on this topic today.

You mean in the last 2 weeks.

 

[def sim]

I had to change my password a few weeks back, though nothing recently. I'll keep my card off the service for now.

 

[pants]

The NSA sure is desperate for information

 

[GoofsterStud]

Did everyone have fifa.... I kid.... Lol

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

The PSN attack was nearly 2.5 years ago. I wonder how many people have changed their password on their own volition since then?

 

[iceatcs]

So what is irregular activity anyway?

Hijacking account. I suspect.

 

[Mononoke]

Someone actually made this thread two days ago I think. I'm surprised it didn't catch on then.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=719453&highlight=psn+password&page=2

Here it is, and the Sony Statement was posted then (5 days ago). That said, the OP never updated the thread, so that answers my initial question.

 

[shinobi602]

Pretty sure this is old. At least, we've had a bunch of threads about this subject.

We have, but Sony's given an official statement now.

 

[Steel]

Now I'm wondering if I should have kept the same password....

 

[Tizoc]

Shoot i forgot the birthdate i used to make my accout will contact sony support later to get this fixed if need be.

 

[Zushin]

Deleted my CC info off the account, thanks for the thread. Didn't get any emails to change my password, but might do so anyway, just to be safe.

 

[thepotatoman]

Ugg. At this point a password change would require me changing the password on PS4, PS3, Vita, the phone app, and the computer web browser.

I'd either have to go through the trouble of turning all those things on again and doing it all at once, or remembering a different password which I might forget by the time I need it. I'd almost rather just take my chances.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Tried to sign in to PS4, said my password's no longer valid and asked me for my birthdate. Gave it and it rejected it saying that the "info is no longer valid." Entered it again, and it's saying that the network is down for maintenance.

Ugh.

 

[jsnepo]

Hijacking account. I suspect.

Detected how? Sudden change in IP? I ask because I sometimes connect through VPN.

 

[razgriz417]

Tried to sign in to PS4, said my password's no longer valid and asked me for my birthdate. Gave it and it rejected it saying that the "info is no longer valid." Entered it again, and it's saying that the network is down for maintenance.

Ugh.

Go on the website to reset your password, or at least check if you can login there

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Go on the website to reset your password, or at least check if you can login there

It says that it's the incorrect email address or password every time. It's doing the same with my Vita, too. Hope it doesn't mean I've been hacked.

Edit: Nope, guess my past self decided it'd be funny if my DoB was one year off.

 

[HassanJamal]

Woke up to this just before some KZ M time. Thankfully I remembered my fake DoB.

 

[nubbe]

I had to reset my account

 

[Gusto]

It seems like its making you change your password if you access ps3, log in then log into ps4

 

[opticalmace]

Didn't realize this was a thing... Just spent the last hour creating random, secure passwords for every single one of my accounts after thinking my account was hacked. Now I feel stupid and I have a notebook page filled top to bottom with all of these passwords I'll never remember.

Dude.. Lastpass.

 

[McDougles]

You mean in the last 2 weeks.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=722803

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=722581

This making the third today.

 

[-Digits-]

This happened to me on both my EU and US accounts. Creepy.

 

[DTSAirmaN]

I also had to reset mine over lunch when I logged on.

 

[Elvick]

I've needed to change my password for awhile anyway. This is the kick in the pants I needed to get around to it.

 

[shinobi602]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=722803

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=722581

This making the third today.

The thread is due to an official statement from Sony, as opposed to the rest.

 

[alle090]

Wonder what their policies for resetting PW are, more than 5 IP's within 1 day?
or a set distance (km) between the IP's location?