CriticalBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 19 Dec 2019

Zynga — 172.9M accounts

Severity: Critical · Kind: Data breach

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From the source

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. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

Breach facts

Accounts affected
172,869,660
Verified
Yes
Sensitive
No
Domain
zynga.com
Data exposed
Email addressesPasswordsPhone numbersUsernames

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