"218 million Words With Friends Players Lose Data to Hackers"

It has been discovered that Words With Friends, Zynga’s popular multiplayer crossword-style game has been affected by a breach.  The hacker/hacker group named GnosticPlayers had gotten access to details on more than 218 million users. Details of all Android and iOS game players who installed and signed up for the game on and before September 2nd 2019 was obtained.  The information that was obtained include: names, email addresses, login IDs, Hashed passwords, SHA1 with salt, password reset token (if ever requested), phone numbers (if provided), Facebook ID (if connected), and Zynga account ID. Luckily it is not believed that they got any credit card information used for payments within the application. 

Naked Security reports: "218 million Words With Friends Players Lose Data to Hackers"

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