In the midst of the scandals that sparked the declassification of the Pandora Papers and the recent leak of sensitive Facebook data, an anonymous user claimed the Twitch hack on 4Chan forumensuring to have absolute control over the social network. Thus, a published file larger than 125GB which includes filtering payments from dozens of streamers -among them, Ibai Llanos and Rubius-, passwords and the twitch source codeamong other reserved data.
At the moment, Twitch has only revealed that the information is real: “We can confirm that a leak has occurred. Our teams are working urgently to understand the scope of it. We will update the community as soon as we have additional information.”assured the Amazon-owned company on its Twitter account:
We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us.
— Twitch (@Twitch)
So first of all, if you have a Twitch account, change your password ;).
What Twitch data was leaked
In addition to the source code of Twitch.tv and its entire comment history since its inception, the attackers said that Twitch clients were stolen for mobile devices, desktop computers and site consoles. They also accessed “proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch,” other properties like IGDB, and CurseForge, a game developed in Unity called Vapeworld, Twitch’s internal tool for improving security. and creator payouts from 2019 to nowincluding those of the 50 highest-earning streamers on the platform.
As you can see in the tweet, among the 50 streamers with the highest income in this period are names known by the Spanish public such as those of Auronplay or Rubius, in addition to Ibai Llanos.
The gross payouts of the top 100 highest-paid Twitch streamers from August 2019 until October 2021:
— KnowSomething (@KnowS0mething)
Between the reactions of the streamers affected highlights the auronplaywho took the incident philosophically:
old pass on Twitch: Auron123
new pass on Twitch: Auron321
— Auron (@auronplay)
Those responsible, whose identity is still unknown, said that this publication is only the “part One” of a larger version and stated that the Twitch community is a “disgusting toxic cesspool”. Therefore, it is believed that the action could be related to the protest day that several streamers made last September 1 under the name #DayOffTwitch, warning about a recent outbreak of harassment in the form of “hate raids” aimed at marginalized creators. Although the hackers claim that this is only the beginning of a series of leaks, they have not confirmed if they will distribute all the content through the network.
This information is under development. We will update as news arises.
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