Security News > 2021 > June > PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry

After enabling two-factor authentication, one player was able to sign back in without issue, according to posts on the PS3 subreddit, which includes a link to instructions on how to opt into 2FA on the PS3. It appears threat actors have started using the stolen PS3 console IDs for malicious purposes, causing the legitimate players to get banned.

Another player on the PSNProfies forum put the stolen PS3 IDs and the ban together back on June 18.

"My account is fine, I can log in on my other PS3, but my main PS3 has got a ban. I signed in fine about 2 hours ago and all I did was use Netflix."

Sony has not responded to Threatpost's request for comment or confirmed a connection between the PS3 ID breach and player reports of being locked out of the platform.

"While it has not yet been confirmed that a data leak of PS3 IDs is correlated with the user bans on the PS3 network, this underscores the importance for all businesses to ensure enterprise-wide visibility of this type of sensitive data, to enable the facilitation of more robust real time security controls," Kate Kuehn, researcher with vArmour, told Threatpost.

"As we have seen in recent weeks through attacks like this and the initiatives the government is enacting in response, implementing robust zero-trust architecture is key to mitigate the risks associated with critical data exploitations by bad actors, as we see potentially again playing out in this latest Sony PS3 case," Kuehn said.

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