Sony won't let you delete PSN ids? Wtf?
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The only time I would do that for @BRiT is if there were an achievement involved. ಠ_ಠI see you've done this before. (prob to Brit)
No wait, I still wouldn't.
What do you mean? New hacking cases emerged??
Not that I know of at least, but Sony has had enough of them already over the years, and it's unlikely they'll never have a single one again...
I've just been going and deleted any online accounts I have that I no longer use. Nothing specific against Sony, just hacking in general. So many services and sites being attacked I figured I'd close all of the ones I don't use anymore. I'll just make some ridiculous password for PSN and delete all the personal info that might be stored in there. Very odd that they won't let you delete your id. Every service I'd checked so far had an option to delete your account.
Welcome to the latest b3d moronic fearmonger thread.
https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/g...ccess-and-details/how-to-close-a-sen-account/
https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/g...ccess-and-details/how-to-close-a-sen-account/
That just bans your account so you can't login. Won't protect you from the kind of mass information dumps hackers have been doing.
This is the kind of stuff I'm worrying about. I don't think it's fearmongering.
Search to see if you're email/account names appear in data breach info:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
List of large data breaches:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
Also, you can check if passwords have been burnt before you create new ones:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
My account information was leaked in adobe, myspace (I don't even remember ever having an account), linkedin and unreal engine hacks. Since the word spread about Equifax, I've been closing and deleting every old account I can find. I would think that's just good practice.
For any accounts that I use, well, I'm just at the mercy of the security that company rolls, but at least I'm minimizing my risk.
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So we don't know if they purge the data from their tables, that's the issue. They could very well delete a flag or top level database pointer leaving the data inaccessible but not purged, yes? Analog is old hard drives being scanned for deleted files. So if someone did get the database they could laboriously scan and find data?
I just changed all my passwords to admin like Equifax since I know they're secure. Lol
I just changed all my passwords to admin like Equifax since I know they're secure. Lol
On my site i generally don't allow users to delete accounts. There's no option for them to but u do get requests to do so. If they have a bunch of content that is in combination with some other users data due to the tools on my site, I'd rather not have the various tables purge all the related information from cascading and I'd rather not have null values replaced causing blank entries in the content. I do however allow them to change any of their private details and add a dummy email address.
I'll try the sony email and see if I can get a confirmation that the account is actually being deleted. That link is a little unclear because it says two different things. When I could find a way to delete my account through their account management ui, I did some google searches on how to close a psn account, because I'd had some luck doing that with other sites. All of the results that came up said there was no way to delete an account. My mistake not checking the actual sony help site.
Silent_Buddha
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If you have an outlook.com account (free also) you can just create an alias e-mail. Then just delete the alias if you want no way for anyone to ever access that PSN again.
Hell, for my e-mail there's still a few places that have my original Microsoft address. But I don't give that out anymore. Now I just give out outlook aliases so there's no way to hack my e-mail accounts. Since those are just outlook aliases ([something]@outlook.com) you can't log into outlook with them.
Regards,
SB
Hell, for my e-mail there's still a few places that have my original Microsoft address. But I don't give that out anymore. Now I just give out outlook aliases so there's no way to hack my e-mail accounts. Since those are just outlook aliases ([something]@outlook.com) you can't log into outlook with them.
Regards,
SB
I like it. I don't know why I didn't think of this a few years back when I was redoing my configurations. I'm going to adapt to this going forward as part of my OpSec. Thanks for sharing!
deathindustrial
Regular
Until your alias goes back into the available pool of account names and someone else registers it.
Silent_Buddha
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