Amazon's Twitch confirms massive data breach; Read details
According to Video Titles Chronicle, which broke the story first, an unidentified hacker claimed to have exposed Twitch data, including information on the company's source code, clients, and unannounced games.
FollowTwitch, Amazon's live-streaming e-sports website, announced a data breach on Wednesday without offering additional specifics. According to Video Titles Chronicle, which broke the story first, an unidentified hacker claimed to have exposed Twitch data, including information on the company's source code, clients, and unannounced games. Twitch acknowledged the breach and stated that "teams are working diligently to determine the scope of the issue." The business denied further comment, saying it will "update the community as soon as new information is available." Amazon did not reply quickly to a request for comment.
According to the Video Games Chronicle, the hacker's goal was to "promote greater disruption and competition in the online video streaming sector." According to the report, around 125GB of data was leaked, including information on Twitch's top-paid video game broadcasters since 2019, such as a $9.6 million compensation to the voice actors of the famous game "Dungeons & Dragons" and an $8.4 million payout to Canadian streamer xQcOW. "Twitch leak is real. Includes the significant amount of personal data," cyber security specialist Kevin Beaumont tweeted.
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Twitch, an online e-sports network with over 30 million average monthly visits, has grown in popularity among artists and video gamers as a venue for interaction with consumers while live-streaming material. The site, which was boycotted earlier this year by users for failing to combat abuse, has previously banned users for infractions such as hate-group participation and severe threats of mass murder.
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The breach comes few days after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down globally for nealry six hours. Facebook attributed the outage to adjustments it made to routers that manage network traffic between its data centres. "This interruption in network traffic had a cascading impact on the way our data centres communicated, bringing our services to a standstill," wrote the Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan in a post. According to cyber security expert Brian Krebs, Facebook removed "the map instructing the world's computers how to access its different web sites."
