[BreachExchange] Zynga hacked, more than 200 million accounts compromised

[Destry Winant]

https://www.techspot.com/news/82150-zynga-hacked-more-than-200-million-accounts-compromised.html

Social gaming developer Zynga is the latest tech-based company to fall
victim to a devastating data breach.

Serial hacker “Gnosticplayers” told The Hacker News that he managed to
gain access to a database containing more than 218 million user
records for the hit game Words With Friends. Specifically, all Android
and iOS players that signed up for and installed the game before
September 2, 2019, are impacted.

Zynga was founded in early 2007 and found massive success just a few
years later with FarmVille, a game it took ownership of with its
acquisition of MyMiniLife. Zynga also struck gold with other titles
including Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker and the aforementioned Words With
Friends.

Zynga said everything you’d expect in its statement – they immediately
launched an investigation, brought in a third-party forensics firm to
help and contacted law enforcement. The developer said it has also
taken steps to protect affected user accounts from invalid logins. At
the very least, you should go and change your Zynga password
immediately.

Zynga is keeping details of the breach close to the vest, however, so
for now, we’ll have to take the hacker’s word at face value.