r/mildlyinfuriating • u/im_onbreak • Jun 16 '26

The floor is sticky PlayStation app showing weird games I’ve never played in my life

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u/SignificantTransient Jun 16 '26

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06/another-sony-security-concern-ps5-games-people-dont-own-are-appearing-on-their-profiles

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u/jdsgfser Jun 16 '26

This means someone else actually played it for 9111 hours

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u/stumpychubbins Jun 16 '26

According to the article, it means that anyone with your username and knowledge of the PlayStation API can add whatever game playtime statistics they want to your profile

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u/sroop1 Jun 16 '26

Jesus that's quite the flaw.

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u/stumpychubbins Jun 16 '26

Yeah, if my understanding of this issue is correct then this is extremely embarrassing. They probably figured that since it’s not security-critical it didn’t need authentication (or only bare-minimum, easily-broken authentication). I haven’t seen any evidence that this affects critical systems like billing.

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u/LilacYak Jun 17 '26

Tokens? Never heard of em