Your PSN Account Can Apparently be Hacked Using Your DoB And Email Address

Using the password recovery option and some fiddling, hackers are apparently able to gain access to your PSN account using only your email and date of birth.

This news comes via fairly unknown site Nylevia, but seems more true than not. Partly because multiple people are claiming this is true, the site is claiming it’ll give demos to larger gaming sites on request, and because using the password reset form is a known weak point in most security systems.

Both email addresses and dates of birth of PSN accounts were leaked to hackers last month.

To be super secure, you should probably change your email address registered to your PSN account now. Or, assume safety in numbers (and you’ll know when/if somebody changes your account password as you get a password change conformation email) and wait it out. Your existing password can’t be found out though this hack, but given the context of it, it scores 5 on the PSNGate scale.