Twitch confirms data breach but remains silent on scope
Previously today, we heard a rather surprising report that claimed that twitching might suffer from massive data violations. The report even moved further by claiming that “overall” twitch had leaked, and indeed, the hackers behind the violation issued a 125GB torrent filled with information including the throbbing source code and the payment details for Streamer Top Platform. Now, Twitch has confirmed that it has suffered a violation but has stopped confirming the extent to which.
In a tweet published after the report lived, Twitch confirmed that it was indeed suffering from security violations. “We can confirm the violation has occurred,” said Twitch in a week. “Our team works with urgency to understand so far. We will update the community as soon as possible information is available. Thank you for refraining with us.”
Tweet, obviously, did not tell us a lot, but reports from the previous VGC today suggested that there was a lot of information included in the leak. Not only leaks that should contain the source code both old and new to twitching themselves, but also contain data on payments from 2019 for many of the biggest bands twitching, giving us windows to how much the most popular creators on the platform are made.
Beyond that, VGC also reported that leaks include data such as various twitching clients (desktop, cellular, and console) along with “proprietary SDK and Internal AWS services used by twitch.” Although it will take the time for people to see all 125GB torrents, it may not be a bad idea for users to assume that password, streaming buttons, and email addresses are linked and changed it.
This hacker behind this leak claims that more content is on the way, so this is apparently only the first part. Because this is a developing story, we will notify you when twitching officially confirm new details about violations – and if further information leaks in the future.
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