Zynga threatened by Anonymous
Social games specialist Zynga may have won the casual gamers over, but they also have been attracting a lot of trouble over the last few months, with the hacking group Anonymous getting a spot on its list of foes most recently.
In a bid to pressurise the San Francisco-based company to stop its “outrageous treatment of employees,” Anonymous has threatened to release confidential information regarding the public on November 5 unless its demands are met.
In a post on the official page of the hacker group, one of the members of Anonymous explained that the group has learned that Zynga plans on sending even more employees home and killing the US game market by outsourcing jobs to countries where the cost of
running operations is significantly less.
Furthermore, the company has also issued a warning that it would be taking a legal action against any employees who speaks about the downsizing plan publically.
Deeming these plans of the social game creators as unfair and insulting to the employees, Anonymous has begun its operation against the company to keep them from going ahead with their plans.
“We have come to believe that these actions of Zynga will result in massive layoff of a thousand people and legal actions against everyone that speaks to the public about this plan. It will also come to end of the US game market as we know it as all this
jobs will be replaced in other more convenient financial countries. With a billion dollars cash sitting in a bank we do believe that such actions are an insult to the population and the behaviour of corporations like Zynga must change,” read the post.
Aside from the confidential information leaked from the company’s database, Anonymous claims to have also picked up several games from the servers.
The hacking group has threatened to release these games to the public for free as well if Zynga fails to respond to its demands before the deadline approaches.
It remains to be seen how the company, who is already engaged in a legal battle against Electronic Arts (EA) over the issue of copyrights infringement, responds to the latest situation.
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