You might’ve seen or heard of AbdulHakam aka Hakoom, a dedicated PlayStation player who entered the Guinness Book of World Records five times for achieving the most Platinum trophies in the world. The record holder recently took to social media to unveil a list of damning allegations, accusing Sony of selling user data after he received an unfair ban. He also claimed that Sony didn’t understand its own rules and guidelines for its trophy system, presenting some pretty convincing arguments.
Hakoom posted a very lengthy breakdown of the events that recently took place, so we’ll do our best to condense all of the important information. On 9 September, Hakoom’s PSN account was permanently suspended for no reason. He claims that he also received no communication or email from PlayStation regarding the ban. After customer support proved to be unhelpful, he got in touch with another department that said it would look into the matter.
A few days later, Hakoom receives a WhatsApp message from an unknown number saying that his data has been leaked on the internet. Apparently, this scammer was bribing PlayStation employees for user data, claiming that Sony was also selling the information. The scammer tried to press Hakoom for his private data further but to no avail. Hakoom later compiled the evidence and sent it to PlayStation, only to get a response from the company listing his supposed violations (taken from his tweet):
- You platinumed games which require 100h to platinum in few hours
- You completed games in 0 mins
- You logged in over 2000 accs on your playstations
- You logged in 29 playstations
Hakoom went through each point and presented counter-arguments. For the first point, he highlighted that when you get a Platinum trophy for a game on PS4 then boot it up on the PS5 version (like Marvel’s Spider-Man, for example), the game’s Platinum trophy will automatically be added showing that you earned it in one minute.
For the second point, Hakoom simply mentioned that there are plenty of shovelware games on the PlayStation Store where it’s possible to acquire Platinum trophies in less than a minute, meaning it’s technically not a violation. For the last two points, Hakoom simply stated that since 2007, he has owned multiple PlayStation consoles with several accounts for ‘dead online games’, as well as other users sharing games with him on his multiple accounts through Sony’s own game sharing feature.
My official resignation from playstation video
Due to corruption and oppression with evidence.The translation isnt very accurate and goes fast sometimes so i will write the story here.
I know its a long video but its a must watch
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Keep in mind this isnt about you… pic.twitter.com/0M2vbbw5re— Hakoom (@psnHakoom) November 13, 2024
Hakoom then accused PlayStation of “throwing him under the bus” in order to cover up its own data leakage – data which apparently finds its way to the black market for scammers to use and get in contact with you. Even after the mountain of evidence that Hakoom presented to Sony, he claims that the company still wouldn’t acknowledge it.
Hakoom posted a video accompanying his message (above) which shows this evidence. We urge you to give it a watch and draw your own conclusions. It’s not uncommon to hear stories about companies allegedly selling user data – or instances of hackers and scammers stealing them – so this is an interesting case.
Source: Hakoom
