Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
the attacker promptly told reporters he had downloaded the details of every Android and iOS user who installed the game before 2 September 2019, a cache estimated at , ≈218 million records, . ,
, Data exposed, ,
, The stolen trove contained the core ingredients of an online identity: e-mail addresses, usernames, login IDs and , salted SHA-1 password hashes, . For many players it also included password-reset tokens, Facebook IDs, Zynga account numbers, phone numbers and, in some cases, full names. Zynga stressed that no financial data was stored on the compromised server, so payment information was not affected, but the breached credentials alone were enough to fuel phishing and credential-stuffing attacks. ,
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About Zynga
Video game developer.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 172.9M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In September 2019, Zynga experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 172.9M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as email address, password, phone number, username.
Approximately 172.9M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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