{"id":105823,"date":"2016-09-28T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105823"},"modified":"2016-09-28T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:55:42","slug":"playstation-owners-watch-out-for-this-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/105823-playstation-owners-watch-out-for-this-scam","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation owners watch out for this scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of PlayStation account holders have reportedly become the target of a email phishing scam.<\/p>\n

The email appears to be sent by Sony and asks you to validate your password, providing a link to have it checked or changed.<\/p>\n

Clicking through and entering your password in the fake link will provide access to both access to your email and password – all that’s required to make changes to your account ownership.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time a phony PlayStation email has done the rounds<\/a>,<\/strong> although the two-factor authentication recently introduced in PS4’s recent 4.00 update<\/a><\/strong> should help combat this.<\/p>\n

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe and PlayStation Network will never ask you to share your password for any reason.<\/p>\n

Do not share your password with anyone, even if they claim to be asking on behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe or PlayStation Network.<\/p>\n

If you believe you have been hacked<\/a><\/strong>, contact Sony immediately.<\/p>\n

\"ps-scam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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You need to read this if you have a PlayStation account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":105831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,19547,1891,131,1423],"class_list":["post-105823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-email","tag-phishing","tag-psn","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105833,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105823\/revisions\/105833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}