![]() In August 2012, RockYou launched The Walking Dead Social Game based on AMC's hit series of the same name. On June 13, 2012, RockYou acquired Bingo developer Ryzing and relocated its headquarters to San Francisco, California. The settlement barred future deceptive claims by the company regarding privacy and data security, required it to implement and maintain a data security program, barred future violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, and required it to pay a $250,000 civil penalty to settle the COPPA charges. In 2012, the company settled Federal Trade Commission charges. In 2011, the company agreed to undergo two independent security audits to settle a proposed class action in California over a 2009 data breach that exposed millions of passwords and email addresses. RockYou's investors include SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International, and DCM. Playdemic's first game, Gourmet Ranch, was nominated in February 2011 for a Mochi Award for Best Social Game. 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. In November 2010, the company's founder and CEO, Lance Tokuda, stepped down from his position as CEO and was later replaced by Lisa Marino in April 2011. In October 2010, the company completed major layoffs. RockYou failed to provide a notification of the breach to users and miscommunicated the extent of the breach. This resulted from storing user data in an unencrypted database (including user passwords in plain text instead of using a cryptographic hash) and not patching a ten-year-old SQL vulnerability. In December 2009, RockYou experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. ![]() ![]() Applications made for Facebook include Super Wall, "Hug Me", Likeness, Vampires, Slideshows, Birthdays, MyGifts, and Emote, among others. ![]() 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. ![]() As of December 2007, it was the most successful widget maker for the Facebook platform in terms of total installations. Later applications included various forms of voice mail, text and photo stylization, and games. The company's first product, a slideshow service, was designed to work as an application widget. Based in San Francisco, California, RockYou was founded in 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. ![]()
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