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 Another PSN account of a top trophy hunter stolen for ransom     Summary After last year's story of one of the top PSN trophy hunters, Hakoom, retiring from PSN after his account was supposedly stolen by a PSN customer support employee, yet another top trophy hunter got their account stolen. This time it was dav1d_123, number #1 hunter according to PSNProfiles leaderboard.   Quotes Quote On October 7, David's PSN account was compromised despite his account being secured by Authy 2FA. He never received any email that his security info had been changed. (...) The attacker ("Zzyuj", formerly "dav1d_123") reveals "it's possible to get access to any user just by knowing the [public] username". He claims you just need to keep calling PS Support until someone believes your story. He attributes it to Sony outsourcing PS Support to less developed countries, but frankly, I don't want any country's PS Support to have this much power. Bad actors can exist anywhere, as you'll see next.   My thoughts Reading up on this makes me remember the last LTT hack - there was a clear way forward, a recognizable threat that could've been prevented, and ultimately somebody inside LTT had to mess up first. In case of PSN, as an owner of the account, you don't even know how and when your account can be stolen, and there's really nothing that can prevent it. You can set your account to private, remove all your PSN friends, and you can still be vulnerable to take over. And what's worst, Sony doesn't seem to care. Recognizable players are getting hacked, banned and nothing changed, at least since last years hack on Hakoom. Noise was already made around these stories, and doesn't seem like that helped, but maybe getting it onto even a bigger stage will.   Sources Hakooms official statement:  Dav1d_123 business partners statement on both incidents: PSN profiles leaderboard: https://psnprofiles.com/leaderboard   [unconfirmed] screenshot from a WhatsApp group selling accounts with unique, short tags