13 Facts About RockYou

RockYou was a company that developed widgets for MySpace and implemented applications for various social networks and Facebook.

In May 2007, RockYou was one of the companies invited to participate in F8, the event at which Facebook announced an open platform allowing third parties to develop and operate their own software applications on the Facebook website.

In December 2009, RockYou experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts.

RockYou failed to provide a notification of the breach to users and miscommunicated the extent of the breach.

In 2010, RockYou announced the acquisitions of two game development studios, TirNua and Playdemic, as well as development agreements for two new games from John Romero's social game studio Loot Drop.

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RockYou's investors include SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International, and DCM.

On June 13,2012, RockYou acquired Bingo developer Ryzing and relocated its headquarters to San Francisco, California.

In 2015, RockYou purchased The Godfather: Five Families, Kingdoms of Camelot, Edgeworld, Glory of Rome, and Dragons of Atlantis from Kabam.

In 2019, RockYou closed down its popular but money-losing PurePlay Poker Game without notice.

In February 2019, after several Facebook posts promoting "exciting news" and a plan to upgrade servers, RockYou announced the closure of The Godfather: Five Families.

On February 13,2019, RockYou filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

RockYou used an unencrypted database to store user account data, including plaintext passwords for its service, as well as passwords to connected accounts at partner sites.

RockYou took days to notify users after the incident, and initially incorrectly reported that the breach only affected older applications when it actually affected all RockYou users.