By this point you already know the drill: Be careful of the emails you open, don’t, under any circumstances, give anyone your social security number, and of course never provide your credit card number to anyone via email or the post. If you have lost your SSC here are some temporary social security card print out options. You most likely knew this, but your grandmother who keeps a PlayStation 3 around her house for her grandchildren to play with may not know these basics, so help her out.
With that in mind, Sony outlined the very basic concept of personal data security over on the PlayStation Blog. Again, a lot of this is simple, but worth taking time to reconsider.
First, Sony will never contact you asking for your credit card number, social security number, or any other personal identification information. If you see anything like this come into your inbox, over the phone, or in the mail, know that this is NOT from Sony.
If you use your PSN password for other services, say your email attached to that account, you should change that password. You can’t change your PSN password quite yet, but Sony will make it mandatory when the service is restored. Again, Sony strongly recommends that you change the passwords of your personal email accounts tied to your PSN account to ensure hackers don’t gain access to other personal information.
Finally, continue to monitor your accounts and financial statements for anything fishy. Consider monitoring your credit report. If you don’t know which credit card is attached to your PSN account, Sony recommends looking for an email from “[email protected]” at the email address associated with your account. The email will only show the first four digits and the last four digits of your credit card number. Of course, you can also check past card statements to see if PSN or Qriocity was attached to that particular account.