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[kyser73]

There's a new scam of some kind going on now in Australia (possibly elsewhere) where people are getting enough info from people via phishing to be able to port mobile phone numbers to new SIM cards. So it renders this kind of two-step kinda useless. I prefer the keygen type.

Probably getting the IMEI numbers from that Chinese Meuti app that was clogging up my FB feed the other day...

 

[HideyoshiJP]

If I turn this on, can I still download titles from the download list on my PSP? As of now, I can even with the store disabled.

 

[Klart]

There's a new scam of some kind going on now in Australia (possibly elsewhere) where people are getting enough info from people via phishing to be able to port mobile phone numbers to new SIM cards. So it renders this kind of two-step kinda useless. I prefer the keygen type.

Seems like a lot of trouble to get a PSN-account.

 

[Rellik]

House will be empty right now and only devices with my account are my Vita and PS3 and 2 PS4's all have already been setup correctly. This was pretty much an attack on my account it seems.

You should also consider using a Gmail alias (If you're using Gmail, of course). There's a guy on this forum who posts about it in every 2FA thread, and I'm glad he does because I never knew about it beforehand.

So if your Gmail was AbandonedTrolley[at]gmail.com, you can change your PSN email to AbandonedTrolley+PSN[at]gmail.com and all emails to that will still make their way to AbandonedTrolley[at]gmail.com. You put anything you want after the '+' of course. Put if there was some kind of huge leak with your email in it, there's no way to even attempt to use it on PSN without the +PSN part. Even if you had Password123 as your password and you told everyone it was that, they're not getting in without the extension to your email that you used.

So using that, plus a very strong password and using 2FA? Good luck getting into someone's PSN account.

I enabled two-step verification a while back, but had to just turn it straight back off again. It is just way too annoying for me...

How is it annoying? It doesn't ask you every time you turn on your PS4. After my initial set up of my PS4, PS3 and PS Vita, it never asked me again until I got my Pro.

But fair enough, it's your choice. But if you do get your account hijacked, it's your own fault.

There's a new scam of some kind going on now in Australia (possibly elsewhere) where people are getting enough info from people via phishing to be able to port mobile phone numbers to new SIM cards. So it renders this kind of two-step kinda useless. I prefer the keygen type.

If someone is going that far so they can play your copy of Uncharted 4, you have much bigger issues than your PSN account security.

If I turn this on, can I still download titles from the download list on my PSP? As of now, I can even with the store disabled.

I don't own a PSP so I couldn't tell you for sure, but give it a try? If it breaks something, you can easily turn it off again. You'll just need to generate a Device Setup Password for the PSP first.

 

[Lashley]

I always use 2 step when its available

 

[Shaneus]

Seems like a lot of trouble to get a PSN-account.

Banks use this method as well. Reset your password, send an auth code to your phone :/

 

[Cleve]

I didn't save my backup codes and changed my phone number so I ended up being locked out of my PSN account for 2 weeks. I had to email PlayStation support my Photo ID with proof from my phone carrier that the old phone number did once belong to me. They told me they can't input or edit numbers but they did deactivate my 2FA so I could log back in and set it up with my new number. Now I have my backup codes saved lol.

Honestly, we should be glad it's such a pain in the ass, would shut down all but the most determined social engineering, and it's pretty unlikely anyone would put in that kinda effort for a psn acct. Glad to know sony aren't lax on that front.

 

[Velikost]

So is doing it through their site the best way to go about it? I remember reading about this in the past and someone saying to not set it up a certain way (I think in the PS3 OS), because it would ping your phone every time you try to do anything on the console.

Just want to limit it to the least amount of notifications as possible