Twitch, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform, has been hacked, as reported this Wednesday by the company, owned by Amazon. “We can confirm that a violation has occurred. Our teams are working urgently to understand the extent of the issue. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available,” the company said via Twitter.
The hacker would have leaked 125GB of company data in an Internet forum, including the source code of the service, the properties they own, an apparent Steam competitor created by Amazon Game Studios called Vapor and other internal information.
An anonymous user of the 4chan forum has published a set of data that he has claimed belongs to Twitch, including confidential data of the company. He has also stated that he has even more information, as collected by the specialized portal VideoGames Chronicle (VGC). On The Verge have confirmed that the data was true.
“The Twitch leak is real, and includes a significant amount of personal data,” cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont also assured via Twitter.
The data can be downloaded in a ‘torrent’ format, as reported by users on Twitter such as @ Sinoc229. The leaked Twitch information also includes user passwords, although these are protected by encryption, so it is recommended that users change their passwords and enable two-step verification, reports Europa Press.
The information from the Vapor platform has also exposed source code related to a new video game developed by Amazon Game Studios, known as Vapeworld, which would be based on chat, according to VGC.
The Twitch docs also show the alleged earnings of some of the streamers most popular of the platform, among which are Shroud, Nickmercs and DrLupo, and the direct payments they receive from users.
This data reveals the 100 channels with the highest revenue from August 2019 to October 2021. According to the published list, the streamer Spanish with the most income on Twitch would have been AuronPlay, which would occupy the ninth place in the world with more than three million dollars won (about 2.64 million euros), and Ibai Llanos, with more than 2.3 million. This would occupy position 18. Others streamers Spaniards who have been affected by the leak are ElRubius, which would have charged 1.75 million dollars, TheGrefg, with 1.28 million, and Alexelcapo, with 911,427 dollars.
The reason for the leak, according to the critic that the hacker anonymous posted on 4chan, refers to community toxicity. According to what they point out, their attack is a response to the recent “hate attacks” that the main streamers on the platform. Something for which the own streamers They had demonstrated on September 1 with a content strike. The company had announced this Monday which is adding new verification tools to combat bullying on the platform.
