Earlier today, an anonymous hacker sha𒁏red 125GB of data from Twitch, including account details and passwords, creator payouts, comment history, and its source code, the Amazed-owned streaming platform has publicly confirmed the breach.
After nearly eight hours since 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:news of the mꩵajor privacy 💜leak first broke, Twitch acknowledged the incident and sai♒d its teams were “worki🥃ng with urgency to understand the extent of this [breach].” Twitch shared no further comments or warnings, but promised it would have an update as soon as it had more information. If you have not already, Twitch account holders should change their passwords now.
In a report from , an anonymous sourc🍷e from Twitch confirmed the legitimacy of the leak and said the company already knew. The data may have been obtained two days ago on Monday, October 4.
The data from Amazon’s streaming service 🎶wound up in a post on 4chan, where the unidentified user said the download was “part one” of the leak. As of right n🐭ow, there’s been no further confirmation on additional leaked files.
Data on creator payouts dating back to 2019 are among the files included, and private information from some of Twitch’s top creators is already making rounds across social media. The leak is also said to include an Amazon Games ⛎Studio platform made to compete with Steam, security tools, and other properties the compan🍎y owns like CurseForge.
Streamers have spent months criticizing the platform’s poor communication and lack of action after a surge in hate raids targeting marginalized creators. In August, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:#DoBetterTwitch campaign began circulating thrꦫough a hashtag on Twitter, demanding the company address the harassment and abuse flooding its platform.
Twitch responded with a lawsuit over the hate raids, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:suing two users for “targeting black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist and other harassing content,” in a violation of its terms. Amazon’s streaming platform has also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:implemented new forms of u🌌ser verifi🎀cation, giving channel owners more tools 🥀to mod their chats and prevent further abusꦅe.