Do you fear a PS/Xbox data breach?

[FlyFish998]

Our PlayStation or Xbox accounts are often linked with personal banking information, email addresses, physical addresses, and other types of information that cyber-criminals would love to get their hands on.

We put ourselves at even more risk when we use these same logins to use subscribe to Netflix or sign up to watch YouTube on our devices.

I remember a couple of years ago when PlayStation did suffer a huge data breach and a lot of people were concerned. Yet here we are in the same position again.

How concerned are you about data breaches?

 

[pwarbi]

To be honest for me it's not something I worry to much about. While like you say, it has happened in the past but as with any site or system that's online, any of them could be hacked at anytime.

If we worried to much about things like that, we'd never do anything over the internet again, and while the risk is obviously there, I don't think it's any more of a risk on a PlayStation or an XBOX than what it is on any other site that stores your details.

 

[harpazo22]

It's probably already happened and you just don't realize it. That's just the risk we have to be willing to take though. Nothing is 100% secure I don't believe.

 

[AmazonXD]

It happened in a big bad way with the PS3 network a few years into launch. That being said, I don't think Microsoft or Sony are going to let that much information get breached without having a few safety measures in place.

I'm sure many people have tried, and anyone who could actually do it probably has better things to do.

 

[pwarbi]

As we've pretty much all said, nothing is fool proof and if somebody wants to hack a network they will. It's one thing putting a server off line, which as been done but actually getting into a database is a different thing entirely.

I'm not saying it can't be done, I just think there's a lot of places that will probably be easier to breach than Sony and Microsoft.

 

[FlyFish998]

Thank you all for your input. You are absolutely right in saying that nothing is 100% secure and we are just as much at risk with our other online accounts.

I do take certain precautions on my accounts including my PlayStation one. I highly recommend others do the same because as stated here data breaches have happened in the past. Cyber security is becoming increasingly important with the amount of personal information we now link with our online accounts.

I think that too many are either simply unaware or apathetic towards the very real threats we face. At the very least, I suggest having different passwords for each online account.

 

[pwarbi]

Having a different password for each of your online accounts is basic security and that should be done at the very least. Some people don't even do that though, and if and when their account is breached, they'll blame everybody and everything apart from thenselves, when, ultimately they haven't done all they can either.

 

[mooray]

Now that is why I don't link my banking info and email address with my X box or PS 4.