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Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network.

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A reported breach of a Sony thư mục containing the serial ID numbers for every PlayStation 3 console appears lớn have led lớn users being inexplicably banned from the platform. This is just the lakiểm tra in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers.

Sony reportedly left a thư mục with every PS3 console ID online unsecured, and it was discovered & reported by a Spanish YouTuber with the handle “The WizWiki” in mid-April. 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.

Now, several weeks later, players on PlayStation Network message boards are complaining that they can’t sign on và are receiving the error message 8071006. After enabling two-factor authentication (2FA), one player was able to lớn sign baông xã in without issue, according to lớn posts on the PS3 subreddit, which includes a links to instructions on how khổng lồ opt into lớn 2FA on the PS3.

It appears threat actors have sầu started using the stolen PS3 console IDs for malicious purposes, causing the legitimate players to get banned.

Another player on the PSNProfies forums put the stolen PS3 IDs và the ban together back on June 18.

“This has just happened lớn me now, tried to lớn sign in và it says the console has being banned or temporarily suspended,” the user wrote. “My tài khoản is fine, I can log in on my other PS3, but my main PS3 has got a ban. I signed in fine about 2 hours ago & all I did was use Netflix.”

The player added that Sony should be doing more to explain the issue và stop it.

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‘If It’s Not a Console ID Leak, What the Hell is Going On?’

“This is very worrying, if it’s true that console IDs have sầu 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 bởi lớn stop this issue?” the person wrote. “If it’s not a console ID leak then what the hell is going on?”

Sony has not responded to channeljc.com’s request for bình luận or confirmed a connection between the PS3 ID breach and player reports of being locked out of the platkhung.

“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 lớn ensure enterprise-wide visibility of this type of sensitive sầu data, khổng lồ enable the facilitation of more robust real time security controls,” Kate Kuehn, researcher with vArmour, told channeljc.com.

She added that this an example of a company’s lack of appropriate security protections và real-time visibility into their sensitive data.

“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. “The main concern is once again, due lớn laông xã of proper application relationship management, mainstream personal data has again been potentially stolen with malicious intent.”

Cyberattacks on Gaming Industry Spike Dramatically

Sony is hardly the only gaming company leaking data lượt thích a sieve. A report from January found a half a million credentials stolen from the Top 25 gaming companies on caches of breached data for sale in criminal marketplaces. In June, the “Battle of the Galaxy” Mobile game leaked 6 million game thủ profiles, and attackers are working out how khổng lồ use gaming platforms lượt thích Steam to host or deliver malware.

And, coincidentally, Akamai released a report just this week showing that bored gamers stuck at trang chính during the pandemic pushed the rate of cyberattacks on the gaming industry up 340 percent in 2020.

There’s no cheat code required to get the idea that its past time for gaming lớn take cybersecurity more seriously.

“As we have sầu seen in recent weeks through attacks like this & the initiatives the government is enacting in response, implementing robust zero-trust architecture is key to lớn mitigate the risks associated with critical data exploitations by bad actors, as we see potentially again playing out in this lachạy thử Sony PS3 case,” Kuehn said.

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