If you play either Words With Friends or Draw Something, you should change your password immediately and be on the lookout for phishing scams aimed at you in a bid to try and extract even more information from you. We plan to notify players as the investigation proceeds further.'

As a precaution, we have taken steps to protect these users' accounts from invalid logins. Zyngas games are available on a number of global platforms, including. 'An investigation was immediately commenced, leading third-party forensics firms were retained to assist and we have contacted law enforcement. Caf World, The Pioneer Trail, Indiana Jones Adventure World and Mafia Wars. Zynga issued a statement which reads, in part, as follows: Zynga have demonstrated with Caf World, Fish Ville and now Pet Ville an. He also boasted that he made off with data belonging to some 7 million Draw Something users, and in this case, revealed that the data he stole contained plain text passwords. This week, Zynga lifted 180m in investment and seem set to conquer social. Recently Zynga acknowledged that they had been breached and that a variety of data was stolen from certain players of Draw Something and Words With Friends.įor his part, Gnosticplayers has been quite forthcoming, even providing The Hacker News with a sample of the stolen data, which includes: Recently, a Pakistani hacker going by the alias Gnosticplayers has claimed that he successfully breached Words With Friends and made off with a massive database containing information on more than 218 million users.

Naturally, their success has painted a giant target on the company. Their titles boast more than a billion players, worldwide, which is a number that would make most gaming outfits green with envy. Zynga is a wildly successful gaming company with a number of hit titles under their belt including FarmVille, Words with Friends, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, and Café World.

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