A hacker has stolen the account data of 218 million players of Zynga’s “Words with Friends”. Zynga warned its users about the breach a couple of weeks back and urged them to reset their passwords, but the incident has also compromised a smaller number of players of two other games.
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@Robert Prigge, CEO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Zynga’s data breach exposing the usernames, emails and passwords of more than 200 million users...."
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"At the very least this information can fuel attacks in which people receive emails from scammers which include their password...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@Ilia Kolochenko, Founder and CEO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The information reportedly stolen does not give an immense marge de maneuver to the attackers...."
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@Ilia Kolochenko, Founder and CEO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@Martin Jartelius, CSO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The presence of the OMGPOP cleartext credentials also shows that the earlier procured company stored those unprotected...."
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