Oct 17, 2010
Zynga Toolbar Has Been Hacked
The Zynga toolbar is having major effects this morning. For some strange reason the toolbar is displaying Rockholmi.ru, which seems like a Russian radio web site of some sorts. We have yet to get any word from Zynga on what is happening, even so, it seems like this may be a hacking. Reports both on Twitter and at different internet forums, including the official Zynga forum, suggest that the issue happens on both Firefox and IE toolbars. Many people are worried that their PC’s may have been infected with some kind of virus via the hack.
The toolbar looks like a black and orange themed bar with the text “rockholmi.ru,” on it. The troubles seem to have started at approximately 7:30 AM EST. Zynga is a social network game developing company. Their toolbar is utilized to access games in a quick manner. The company is established in San Francisco, California, and employs around 1250 people. Total revenue for 2010 has been in excess of $600 million until now.
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Not been hacked! Zynga has used a 3rd party company for the toolbar. The 3rd party provides millions of toolbars for other people. I guessing they updated the toolbar in error.
ReplyDeleteTo much and time and effort wasted to just change the toolvar to a russian radio station.
All fixed as of 7:00 am PDT10/17/2010
ReplyDeleteI've been affected by it. Facebook login or Zynga's login via Facebook both redirect to Rockholmi.ru. I've removed the Zynga toolbar -- no change.
ReplyDeleteSame problem here. Noticed the orange writing and thought straight away of a hack.
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