Two people have filed a class-action complaint against Zynga following a 2019 data breach it is reported to affect more than 172 million people. Zynga agreed in a sea of data when "certain player account information" was discovered by hackers in September 2019. It was then that account login information Draw something and Names Whatever you are users were found, but the company said it did not believe financial information was available.
In December 2019, security website I Been Pwned said data breaches ranked 10th as one of the biggest data hacks for users. Zynga has not confirmed the size of the breach.
An agent named Gnosticplayers told Hacker News By 2019 he had access to names, email addresses, login IDs, phone numbers, hashed passwords, Facebook IDs, and more information breaches. He also said that they had received "clear text passwords" from over 7 million OMGPOP users. (OMGPOP upgraded Draw something and acquired by Zynga in 2013.)
Attorneys for the two claims are filing a lawsuit for the Zynga category for "failing to properly protect" the player's details and the company's failure to notify users in a timely manner. They also accused Zynga users of "foolishly" misleading users about the security and protection of their user information. Plaintiffs allege that a large number of children were involved in the crime.
Zynga is an American company that has created popular mobile and social games FarmVille, Names of Friends, again Zynga Poker. In 2019, it reported 20 million active daily workstations, according to USA Today. 100 million players are reportedly launching their apps every month.
The cases and millions of others are at "high risk of fraud" for years to come because of "data breaches and Zynga's deceptive and unethical behavior," according to the law.
Zynga did not respond to Polygon's request for comment.
