Published on October 3rd, 2019 📆 | 1565 Views ⚑
0How to Protect Yourself in the ‘Words with Friends’ Data Breach
Around 200 million players of the popular Words With Friends and Draw Something games from Zynga have had their accountsâ information stolen by âoutside hackers,â as the company describes. While your linked credit cards and any other methods you use to buy stuff within Zyngaâs games appears to be safe so far, your logins might have been compromised.
As Zynga writes on a separate support page:
âOur current understanding is that no financial information was accessed. However, we understand that account information for certain players of certain Zynga games may have been accessed. As a precaution, we have taken steps to protect certain playersâ accounts from invalid logins, including but not limited to where we believe that passwords may have been accessed. Zynga has begun the process of sending individual notices to players where we believe that notice is required.â
Should you be concerned? If youâre using the same password for Zynga as you are other services, yes. Thatâs an easy problem to fix, however. Get a password manager and make sure youâre using strong, unique passwords for all of your various servicesâwhich cuts down the likelihood that a password breach on one site will compromise your security on another.
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Even if you donât get an email from Zynga that your account was affected, it never hurts to reset your password anyway. (Thereâs nothing wrong with a little extra caution.) You probably donât need to meticulously scan your credit card transactions for the next few monthsâfor any that might be otherwise linked to your Zynga account, that isâbut it never hurts to give them a quick look in a month or so just to make sure everything is on the up-and-up.
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