Twitch hacked, 125GB of data including source code shared on the internet

The hacker claims that the Twitch hack and data leak was carried out with the aim of promoting competition in the streaming video market. The Video Games Chronicle page confirmed that the leaked data belongs to Twitch.

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This data includes:

Details of payments made by creators on Twitch for 3 years.
The full history of Twitch.tv.
Source code for mobile clients, desktops, and game consoles.
Code related to proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch.
Information about an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios.
Data on other Twitch properties such as IGDB and CurseForge.
Twitch's internal security tools.

This data is labeled as "Part one", so it is likely that the hacker also has a lot of other Twitch data. Also according to Video Games Chronicle, data could be stolen by hackers this week and Twitch already knows they were hacked.

Twitch confirmed that it was hacked and said it is actively investigating to assess the severity of the issue. It appears that this leak has nothing to do with Twitch user passwords or addresses. Instead of focusing on user data, the hacker behind this incident was more interested in Twitch's tools and source code.

It's still unclear how much of Twitch's data was stolen by hackers. TipsMake.com recommends that you change your Twitch account password (if any) and enable two-factor authentication.

Kareem Winters

Update 07 October 2021

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