Zynga and Facebook Threatened by Anon

Zynga is planning on trimming some of their fat, which is their right as a business. Anonymous is butthurt about it and has threatened to do something ominous.

From Businessinsider here:

The hacker group that calls itself Anonymous posted a warning message to Zynga and Facebook today.
The message says it will take Facebook down on November 5 and release Zynga games to the public on that day for free if Zynga doesn’t stop its alleged plans for massive layoffs and offshoring of jobs.

Anonymous says that it has obtained secret documents about Zynga’s strategy which includes a “massive layoff of a thousand people.”

The hacker group is ticked off about the jobs. “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,” it said.

But it’s entirely possible that this planned attack is nothing more than a hoax and that the group does not have access to confidential Zynga plans or its games.

The statement released sounded like it was made by a bunch of foreigners who could only communicate in broken English. I don’t think they could attack any of the Zynga games, nor “take down” Facebook. And if its someone posing as Anonymous, well, Anon has done a piss-poor job protecting their own brand such as it is. Once everyone is Anonymous, no one is.