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Zynga data breach

Risk level: High 55/100

What happened

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.
Breach date
1 September 2019
Date added
19 December 2019
Compromised accounts
172,869,660
Domain
zynga.com

Compromised data

  • Email addresses
  • Passwords
  • Phone numbers
  • Usernames

Breach attributes

  • Verified

Recommended steps if you were in the Zynga breach:

Security remediation checklist

Work through these steps, most urgent first: