PSX-Scene Data Breach

What happened

In approximately February 2015, the Sony Playstation forum known as PSX-Scene was hacked and more than 340k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your PSX-Scene password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing PSX-Scene — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.