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Zynga Toolbar Seems to Have Been Hacked by Rockholmi.ru

Posted by Brian Krassenstein on Oct 17th, 2010 and filed under Sci/Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Zynga Toolbar

Above is a Screenshot of the Hacked Toolbar

The Zynga toolbar is having major issues this morning. For some unknown reason the toolbar is showing Rockholmi.ru, which looks like a Russian radio website of some sorts. We have yet to get any word from Zynga on what is going on, however, it looks like this may be a hacking. Reports both on Twitter and at various internet forums, including the official Zynga forum, suggest that the issue occurs 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 seems to transform into a black and orange themed bar with the text “rockholmi.ru,” on it. The problems seem to have begun at approximately 7:30 AM EST. Zynga is a social network game developing company. Their toolbar is used to access games in a quick manner. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and employs approximately 1250 people. Total revenue for 2010 has been in excess of $600 million thus far.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Jayke1981 James Donnelly

    This is irritating… I hope it doesn’t take Zynga long to rectify this!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683609054 Dea Ell C

    same here >< ZYNGA please fix this, bring back my zynga game bar :( (

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christina-Nix/100000219334345 Christina Nix

    this is odd… just a few days ago my mom was telling me in holland they were talking about a hacker that gets to you on farmville… if you see a little avatar with yellow hair and instead of the blue icon above his head it is red…? i think…. but now this… so my computer has been hacked. isnt that fun. thanks zynga

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H7NPEJDTR2X76SSJEFY7SUQUWE Gilad

    Hi! it happened to me but now it is ok, I fixed it using the refresh button on the toolbar

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O3QY2CSY63SBU7SL5RKXXJAGUQ Mark Chantiny

    Have same issue with my Firefox here in US (Louisiana)…how’d this happen..thought Zynga was more together than this…..also refreshing page and/or restarting computer doesn’t work either…[email protected]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O3QY2CSY63SBU7SL5RKXXJAGUQ Mark Chantiny

    have you posted the above on Facebook?…this whole thing is pretty irritating to say the least….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O3QY2CSY63SBU7SL5RKXXJAGUQ Mark Chantiny

    have you posted the above on Facebook?…this whole thing is pretty irritating to say the least….

  • http://www.facebook.com/erik.ilves Erik Ilves

    http://forum.conduit.com/experts/rockholmi-ru-toolbar/ – seems it was a glitch, not a malware attack. just have to refresh the toolbar and everything will be ok.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pghmafia David Alexander

    A Russian Company paid Zynga 200 million back in Dec 09… don’t be surprised if this isn’t an “accident.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/criminal2 ‘Robyn B. Holmes’

    as if anyone believes this was an accident. i bet only a little digging will be needed to connect this company to DST (zynga and facebooks main investor)
    and of course zynga wont admit it but what else would the point of bribing users to get the toolbar really be unless shit like this was planned from the get go?

    i warned users about the toolbars before they were even released, and despite how the toolbar forced users to give access to their inboxes, the bribes were enough to get them tons of suckers :/ grrrrr
    no wonder i hate zynga,they even had my fb page deleted because i was showing all the users the facts behind zyngas trickery :/

    dont buy zynga stocks no matter what you do.
    when they go for their IPO ,everyone will learn how false the metrics and zyngas profitability claims are. zynga is just another word for ENRON!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/criminal2 ‘Robyn B. Holmes’
  • http://www.facebook.com/kstalzer Kate Stalzer

    My husband and I both had the .ru change to our Z toolbar on separate computers this morning. Avast and Spybot did not find anything unusual, but as a precaution, we uninstalled the toolbar from Programs, rebooted and changed passwords to sites we visited this morning. We will be interested to learn more about what happened here!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Burt-Green/100001262940640 Burt Green

    Happened to me yesterday. I had no idea where it came from.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000761688654 Adam Timberlake

    Hmm, Question. I had installed The Zynga Toolbar before this occurred and still currently have it. I am not positively sure if it is or is not the infected toolbar. I am currently using Firefox, So I went to Tools, Add-Ons, Extensions, and then saw that Zynga toolbar was actually in my extensions. If you click the options button beside the Zynga toolbar and uncheck the “Send Usage Statistics” that is instated to “Help them improve their toolbar” then you will be able to see the toolbar clearly. As long as the Russian Radio station name doesn’t appear on the toolbar then I believe it’s perfectly safe. That is not to say “Do not run antivirus, You may need to run it just as a precautionary measure” I am simply stating this to maybe ease some confusion but then again, You may have actually acquired the toolbar with the Russian Radio Station name problem occurring. I simply installed the toolbar OFF of Facebook, With legitimate credentials. My question therefore is, “Could users have acquired the infested toolbar actually off Facebook?” Or, Is it just the users that installed off other sites for harmful purposes that may have acquired the infected toolbar?

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