Massive Twitch Hack Includes Creator Earnings, Source Code, Amazon’s Steam Competitor

(Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s been a wild week in the tech sector, between Facebook accidentally deleting itself for most of a day, and now a truly massive leak through Amazon that includes a host of information about Twitch and its users. The hack, 125 GB worth of data currently being distributed on torrent sites, as first reported by VGC, includes a host of potentially damaging information for both Twitch and its creators: Literally all of Twitch.tv, including its entire comment history. Twitch source code, and proprietary SDKs and AWS services used by Twitch. The clients for Twitch mobile, desktop and console. Three years of creator payouts, including monthly and yearly totals since 2019. An unreleased Steam competitor called Vapor, made by Amazon. The hacker does not appear to have released identifying personal information like real names and addresses, but the status… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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