170m passwords stolen in Zynga hack, monitor says
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#4WSK5)
Words With Friends company admitted hack in September but size only now revealed
More than 170m usernames and passwords were stolen from the company behind Words With Friends in a hack this year, according to a breach monitoring site.
Zynga, a social game developer that made its name with Farmville a decade ago and acquired Words With Friends a year later, admitted to the hack in September, telling users that cyber-attacks were "one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today".
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