PlayStation Network account security

The steps that actually close the ways a PlayStation Network account gets taken — in the order worth doing them.

7 steps · about 5 minutes Two-Step Verification

What an attacker gets with your PlayStation Network account

Games Library Friends Trophies Real Name Purchase History

Has PlayStation Network itself been breached?

No. PlayStation Network does not appear anywhere in Have I Been Pwned’s catalogue of 1,027 known leaks.

That is about PlayStation Network the company. Your own email address can still be sitting in a leak from somewhere else entirely — a shop, a forum, an old account you have forgotten. That is the part worth checking, and it is free.

How PlayStation Network accounts are taken

Fake Psn Codes
Account Selling
Console Ban Scams

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The checklist

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Turn on 2-step verification

PlayStation supports an authenticator app or SMS codes on sign-in.
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Deactivate consoles you no longer own

A console stays signed in until it is deactivated. Sold and traded consoles are a common route back in.
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Hide your real name

PlayStation can show a real name alongside the Online ID. Restrict who sees it.
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Turn on sign-in notifications

An email the moment somebody signs in is the earliest warning you get.
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Review who can see your activity

Online status, what you are playing and your friends list each have their own audience setting.
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Limit who can message you

Unsolicited messages are how most console phishing starts.
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Require a password for purchases

Separates spending from simply being signed in.

What this guide can’t do

Every step above hardens the account from here on. None of them touch the data that has already leaked — the email, password and phone number sitting in someone else’s breach dump, which is where most PlayStation Network takeovers actually start. You can’t unleak a breach. You can find out what’s in there and take away what it’s worth.

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