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225:, CEO of Zynga, announced in an official blog post on 3 June 2013 that the company would be laying off 18% of its employees in order to restructure the company and cut back on finances. Many former OMGPop employees were laid off, and the New York office was one of the three that Zynga shut down. While this had been reported as the closure of OMGPop, the omgpop.com website remained active. However, in a statement issued by parent company 57: 248:
Around 2013, Zynga suffered a large data breach exposing over 7 million email addresses and plain text passwords for OMGPop which were later leaked in 2019. The breach was first reported to The Hacker News in September of 2019 by Pakistani hacker "Gnosticplayers" claiming to have access to 218
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On 21 March 2012, Zynga announced that it would acquire OMGPop for $ 180 million, saying "It is our mission to provide consumers with fun, free games. We believe OMGPop will help us fulfill our promise."
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million accounts across the Zynga portfolio. Although the breach was later confirmed by Zynga, the company did not comment on the number of accounts and may have failed to disclose the breach to users.
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had surpassed over 50 million downloads and that since the game's launch, over 6 billion drawings had been shared between friends.
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in July 2013, it was announced that the site would close on 30 September 2013, with four games –
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registering 10.8 million daily active users, compared to
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On 4 April 2012 OMGPop reported that their hit game
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