(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Last night, I logged onto my PlayStation 4 and was met with a disconcerting message. Apparently, my PSN password was "no longer valid, and needed to be changed." Changing my password was simple enough, but thanks to the Great PlayStation Hack of 2011, it's hard not to feel concerned anytime Sony is arbitrarily demanding account resets. And as mentioned by The Verge, this isn't an isolated problem.

Sony emailed a number of its PlayStation users last night, requiring a password reset. According to the email, "Sony Entertainment Network team routinely monitors for any irregular activity, and if such activity is detected, we may sometimes reset passwords of affected accounts to protect consumers and their account information."

Essentially, Sony is telling me--along with an unknown number of other PSN users--that something fishy has happened with my account. Earlier this week, massive security breaches were detected at Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Of course, it's entirely possible Sony is just taking precautions, but it doesn't appear every PSN user has faced the same mandatory password resets.

As of this writing, Sony hasn't offered further details beyond the rather vague explanation provided in the emails.

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this explains some of your pw resets.

you can expect some nice compensation if that ever happened again. at least all our data is encrypted now.

Well, this happend to me when I was using 2 PS3's at home and my m8s at his place. So if you use ur account other places than home and on unknown PS3's this will also happend.

But as you say, not very hard to get it to work again, and now that I only use my PS4 for now, this hasn't happend.

But like how Sony is doing it, it would suck if your e-mail would gone missing, then you're F**KED xD

i have recived the msg to change my password it's good or bad??

Your sig says it all the guy is anonymous sony don't get fucked again Tech takes over the world and if your really dumb you would know anonymous clam they hacked sony but everyone knows it was a inside job and the guy ended up losing his job over this.

Maybe it is a security feature?