While you are going “Pfffft, i have tons of hacker friends who have been doing this to gamers forever. lots of ppl in there are reporting to use their consoles regularly but RIGHT NOW Sony seems to hit everybody with the ban hammer. Spend 5 minutes browsing the forum there and you'll know what I mean.ĭude, what you’re saying still amounts to “Relax!”

There's no evidence that a large scale leak like this actually took place so until I see some concrete proof or evidence and not some random YouTube video everyone keeps bringing up, or a handful of people saying their console is banned then yeah, mountain out of a molehill.Īnd yes, people on psnprofiles are quite often drama queens.

I think if there were 80 million odd PS3 consoles being banned by Sony we'd have heard by now. Yet there's only 2 places on the entire internet discussing the matter which supposedly happened 3 months ago. The thread title uses the word 'millions' and 'possibly all PS3 consoles'. There's many people in that same thread saying that they're unaffected. I wouldn't call a single thread with a few people chiming in 'a great number'. That makes them now drama queens without a shred of evidence who should - what? Not ignore Micky who tells them to just relax while they’re staring at their actual message from Sony telling them their console has been banned? They are trying to warn other gamers and gather/centralize information. Um, these are well known members at psnp who in great numbers report to have received a ban on at least one of their consoles over the past few days. (source : I know a few console modders and all of them use different ways of automation to find working IDs and pass them in or sell them) Obviously the higher number of consoles you have then > higher chance of getting your CID spoofed. It's pot luck if it hits yours or not really, the entire situation has been blown out of proportion. People for years have been running scripts to find working CIDs when their consoles have been banned. Most people are fine, 100 million PS3s were sold and there's probably even more IDs. I said this over on PSNP but it was overlooked with them all stressing and messaging news outlets. And I believe similar things have happened in the past.

It's no big deal from what I can gather (if it even happened). Further to that, this apparently happened over 3 months ago? I don't know, you'd swear the world was on fire with how some people are talking about it. Even PlayStation-centric YouTubers who would typically be on top of news like this haven't mentioned it or brought it up. The only places talking about it is this thread and the one on psnprofiles. I can't find any articles online about it. The video in question that kicked this off apparently quoted no sources. Yeah I've been looking into this and I can't find a shred of evidence that this has actually taken place. There's also some speculation that one of the more recent firmware updates may have opened up some kind of vulnerability, allowing these IDs to leak. The jury is still out on whether console IDs have in fact been leaked, and if they have, how.

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