- Jun 9, 2013
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In a tweet sent out at after midnight on Wednesday night, Sony announced it was enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for its PlayStation Network (PSN).
The initiative is being made to improve security and to defend against incursions into the PSN service, which allows participants to play games online, maintain a profile, communicate via text and video messages, and conference in other gamers.
With the security feature added on Thursday, registered PlayStation and PSP owners can now enable 2FA, or what the company is calling two-step verification (2SV). Gamers can click over to a Sony security page to activate the feature, which, in addition to a password and username, will require future logins to key in a code sent via SMS to the user's mobile device.
"By requiring two forms of identification for sign-in, your account and personal information will be better protected," Sony stated in its release note.
The move comes nearly two years after a massive data breach not only crippled the company's operations but resulted in embarrassment and a $15 million settlement in April of a class action suit with employees (and lawyers) over the siphoning of personal information in November 2014. The computer hack was in retaliation for the release of the film The Interview, which skewered North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Full Article. Sony enables two-factor authentication for PlayStation
The initiative is being made to improve security and to defend against incursions into the PSN service, which allows participants to play games online, maintain a profile, communicate via text and video messages, and conference in other gamers.
With the security feature added on Thursday, registered PlayStation and PSP owners can now enable 2FA, or what the company is calling two-step verification (2SV). Gamers can click over to a Sony security page to activate the feature, which, in addition to a password and username, will require future logins to key in a code sent via SMS to the user's mobile device.
"By requiring two forms of identification for sign-in, your account and personal information will be better protected," Sony stated in its release note.
The move comes nearly two years after a massive data breach not only crippled the company's operations but resulted in embarrassment and a $15 million settlement in April of a class action suit with employees (and lawyers) over the siphoning of personal information in November 2014. The computer hack was in retaliation for the release of the film The Interview, which skewered North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Full Article. Sony enables two-factor authentication for PlayStation
