First off, let me clarify a few things.
- I am always [b]careful[/b] with my passwords/account info, and never share them with anyone.
- I have never participated in account recoveries or anything of the sort in the past.
- Only my Destiny characters were touched which is strange, and my PSN seems to be otherwise fine since I changed my password and everything as soon as I discovered this abnormality.
Now, as for what happened:
One day, when I logged onto my PS4, it was a different person's account. My old characters were nowhere to be seen, and when I try signing into Bungie.net here with PSN it takes me to a Bungie account I didn't even recognize instead of my old one. Even after I changed my PSN password, its still linked to the unrecognized account and I cannot access my old characters, since I have to apparently 'authenticate' the other two platforms he's linked to on the Bungie account, neither of which I have access to.
I've read the terms on cross-save and heard that Bungie is not responsible for any leaks of password/account info, but can they at least unlink my playstation from this account so I can recover my old characters? I really don't know how this happened - I live alone, and there is literally no one who could possibly have gotten access to my passwords.
I've spent hundreds of dollars on my account. I don't want to lose it because of an unexplained issue I am not even aware of. Can anyone please help me?
The unrecognized Bungie account has been banned as of present. I can still login to it, but when I tried to post on the forums, it told me the account was banned. I suspect I wasn't the first victim of the owner, and he has been banned for these reasons. However, I still cannot recover my old PS4 characters.
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Hi there. Under no circumstances will Bungie forcefully remove or unlink an account. If just the Bungie profile your account is linked to has been banned from the forums, then that only affects posting and private messaging from that profile. If your PS account is currently part of an active Cross Save, you cannot disable the Cross Save unless you have the login credentials for all accounts linked on that profile. If any account linked to the Cross Save is banned, it is not possible to disable Cross Save.
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Bungie do not forcibly unlink accounts. You'll need to try and work with the other platforms/PSN to get access to those. If that's not possible then sorry to say this but you're stuck with the setup as is.