Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data

guest · Sep 29, 2019

Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data
September 29, 2019
https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/zynga-game-hacking.html

A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc.

With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zynga is one of the world's most successful social game developers with a collection of hit online games—including FarmVille, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, and Café World—with over a billion players worldwide.
According to the hacker, the data breach affected all Android and iOS game players who installed and signed up for the 'Words With Friends' game on and before 2nd September this year.

In a statement published over a week ago, Zynga admitted the data breach, revealing that the "account login information for certain players of Draw Something and Words With Friends that may have been accessed," though the company did not reveal the number of affected users.
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guest · Dec 19, 2019

data has been added to Have I Been Pwned:

Zynga
In September 2019, game developer Zynga (the creator of Words with Friends) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 173M unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Breach date: 1 September 2019
Date added to HIBP: 19 December 2019
Compromised accounts: 172,869,660
Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
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173 million accounts exposed in hack of 'Words with Friends' developer
December 19, 2019
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/173...ack-of-words-with-friends-developer-1.4736646

The data breach monitoring website Have I Been Pwned, which allows customers to check if their personal information has been compromised, now says the hack exposed 172,869,660 email addresses alongside usernames and passwords.

The passwords were stored as “salted SHA-1 hashes," according to the website, which means they had additional protections that would make them difficult for hackers to decipher.
Have I Been Pwned ranks the Zynga hack as the 10th largest data breach in its catalogue.
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guest · Mar 3, 2020

Zynga implicated in class-action lawsuit over 2019 data breach
More than 172 million people were reportedly affected
March 3, 2020
https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/3/21163471/zynga-class-action-lawsuit-2019-data-breach

Two individuals have filed a class-action complaint against Zynga following a 2019 data breach that reportedly affected more than 172 million people. Zynga admitted to the data beach wherein “certain player account information” was obtained by hackers in September 2019.

Lawyers for the two plaintiffs are filing the class-action lawsuit for Zynga’s “failure to reasonably safeguard” player information and the company’s failure to notify users in a timely manner. They also suggest Zynga “unconscionably” deceived users regarding the safety and protection of their user information. The plaintiffs said a large number of minors were implicated in the breach.
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The plaintiffs and millions of others are at “an imminent risk of fraud” for years to come “as a result of the data breach and Zynga’s deceptive and unconscionable conduct,” according to the lawsuit.
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