Sony announces unauthorized access to PSN accounts, etc. Cause the third party impersonation

It is remembrance that the service such as "PlayStation Network (PSN)" and the like has been stopped for a long time due to the illegal invasion from the outside in April, but Sony has unauthorized access to PSN account etc. Announced.

Sony Japan | About trial of unauthorized sign-in by third party's "impersonation" to the user account of PlayStationRNetwork, "Sony Entertainment Network", Sony Online Entertainment


According to the press release of Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment, "PlayStation Network (PSN)" "Sony Entertainment Network (SEN)" and "Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE)" will be released from 7th to 10th October of the US Pacific Daylight Time It seems that it was found that an unauthorized sign-in to a user's account by a third party was made to the service of.

Unlike illegal access to a data server conducted in April, this is a third-party diversion of information on user ID and password that are considered to be used for logging in services of another company, and provided by Sony It is said that it is "impersonation act" who attempted to log in to the service illegally, and there is no leakage of credit card information.

In addition, it turned out that approximately 93,000 accounts (PSN and SEN: approximately 60,000, SOE: approximately 33,000) of the accounts in which an unauthorized sign-in was attempted are consistent with currently active accounts , And pauses use for matching accounts. We will send an e-mail to the user of the account where an unauthorized sign-in was attempted and request to change the password.

Although it is revealed that it is not a problem caused by the Sony side system at the present time, the problem is "Use the same ID and password across multiple services cross-platformActs of saying. If the ID and the path leaked out from any service at least once, the possibility that it will lead to abuse in other services like this time is sufficiently considered, so the user needs to be careful ... It will be.