Anonymous hacker threatens Zynga to say job cuts leak

Anonymous hacker, is a hacker group organization. From the online message board 4chan derivative, specifically against the agency or the Government Review network operation, mainly in the message board gathered netizens to launch the offensive. A spokesman for the organization said that its members were mainly young people, including adults, computer experts and so on, without specific leadership. The group was famous for its protection of intellectual property rights, the crackdown on piracy and the website of Scientology.

"Anonymous", the hacker group, recently claimed by its official news channel and a video posted on YouTube that it had stolen Zynga's classified documents, showing it was planning to cut off the development team of up to 800 people in the United States and outsource the development effort. They threatened Zynga to terminate the plan immediately, or they would divulge Zynga's confidential documents and game products.

The news of Zynga's announcement last week that it would cut 5% and close some of its studios is only the tip of the iceberg. The Anonymous (Anonymous) hacker group today claimed to have received confidential documents from inside Zynga (from the organization's "official" news station, Anonnews), which revealed plans to include Zynga's impending layoffs and transfer the jobs to less paid, Lower spending overseas.

The anonymous hacker group called the next action "OP Mazynga", threatening Zynga's plans to stop layoffs and relocate jobs overseas. They claim to have uploaded a batch of confidential documents stolen from Zynga to multiple points, and if Zynga refuses to meet the group's demands, they will release the key to the compressed files on November 5.

The group's bargaining chips are not just the fake documents-"We also plan to release all the games from Zynga's servers for free, and if Zynga immediately terminates the plan, we will dismiss the idea accordingly." ”

This is not a prank, and Anonymous said they aimed at Zynga because of the "brutal treatment of employees and the behavior of a large number of developers", after the theft of confidential documents to realize that the company's brewing disaster will affect the entire U.S. gaming industry.

"We believe that Zynga's actions will eventually lead to massive layoffs for hundreds of thousands of people, and that the company is suing all those trying to publicize the plan," he said. We know that these jobs will be replaced by cheaper countries, which will lead to the end of the US gaming market. ”

To increase the credibility of the message and the persuasive power of Zynga, the anonymous group also published a partial excerpt from confidential documents, including:

"Following the initial announcement this week, we plan to release the final two-quarter strategy on November 23, including an additional 800 jobs and further financing for the cause in this market." In addition to our cooperation with bwin.party, we have made progress in our discussions with a partner on the coverage of our products to the US market, and we are going to go deeper into the global gaming industry.

We are still focused on and adhering to the process of fully outsourcing development work, by which time all development work will be done by our development team in Bangalore, India, to save money for our long-term development.

We have uncovered a number of new key products in the third party, including lovers in a dangerous spacetime,shove prod and music invaders, where we have started our business contacts to acquire these works at a price of about USD 20 million. We are confident that we will be able to complete our acquisitions this month and take advantage of our competitors in the mobile gaming market. ”