{"id":109859,"date":"2020-03-03T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359080"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:41:00","slug":"zynga-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-2019-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/zynga-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-2019-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga faces class action lawsuit over 2019 data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zynga is facing a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing protect the data of the millions that play its games after hackers gained access to player information through a 2019 data breach.<\/p>\n

The class action lawsuit spotted and shared by Polygon<\/a> was filed by two victims of that 2019 data breach, one of whom is a minor represented by their parent in the filing.<\/p>\n

In it, Zynga is accused of failing to \u201creasonably safeguard\u201d players\u2019 personal information, and of failing to notify players that their information had been accessed and distributed by a third-party in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

The data breach in question took place in September 2019 and reportedly saw the data of over 172 million Draw Something <\/em>and Words With Friends<\/em> players obtained by hackers, though Zynga itself hasn\u2019t commented on the exact number of people affected by the breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zynga is facing a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing protect the data of the millions that play its games after hackers gained access to player information through a 2019 data breach. The class action lawsuit spotted and shared by Polygon was filed by two victims of that 2019 data breach, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}