CriticalBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 19 Dec 2019
Zynga — 172.9M accounts
Severity: Critical · Kind: Data breach
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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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