A Pakistani hacker has hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc.

Earlier this year, the same hacker gained notoriety for selling nearly a billion user records pinched from approximately 45 popular online services.

Zynga Inc, which essentially focuses on mobile and social networking sites, is an American social game developer running social video game services created in April 2007.

The company has an existing market capitalization of more than $5 billion, and is one of the world’s most popular social game developers with an assortment of successful online games.

Known online as Gnosticplayers, the hacker revealed that this time, he was able to breach “Words With Friends,” a popular Zynga-developed word puzzle game, and unauthorizedly access an enormous database of more than 218 million users.

In a statement published over a week ago, the company conceded to the data breach, saying that the “account login information for certain players of Draw Something and Words With Friends that may have been accessed,” though Zynga did not disclose the number of users affected.

Based on a sample data Gnosticplayers revealed, the stolen users’ information includes their:

  • Names
  • Email addresses
  • Login IDs
  • Hashed passwords, SHA1 with salt
  • Password reset token (if ever requested)
  • Phone numbers (if provided)
  • Facebook ID (if connected)
  • Zynga account ID

Zynga has started an inquiry and hired third-party forensics companies to help it, and reported the incident to the law enforcement agencies.

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