Video-game-streaming platform Twitch confirms data breach, where the stolen data contains the company’s source code and unreleased games.
- Twitch, the live streaming platform owned by Amazon.com Inc, suffered a data breach.
- The leak has been labelled as “part one,” indicating that more could come.
Video-game-streaming platform Twitch confirms data breach, where the stolen data contains the company’s source code and unreleased games.
Twitch discloses a hacker was able to access data that was mistakenly exposed to the internet “due to error in a Twitch server configuration change that the malicious third party subsequently accessed.”
“Their community is also a disgusting toxic cesspool, so to foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space, we have completely owned them, and in part one, are releasing the source code from almost 6,000 internal Git repositories,” reads the message published by the leaker.
A torrent of a 125-gigabyte file of data pulled from the hack is circulating on the anonymous message board 4chan.
The twitch leaks part one claims that the archive contains:
- The entirety of Twitch. tv, with a committed history going back to its early beginnings
- Mobile, desktop, and video game console clients
- Various proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by the platform
- Every other property that Twitch owns, including IGDB and CurseForge
- An unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios
- Twitch SOC internal red teaming tools (lol)
- and the creator payout reports from 2019 until now.
The popular video streaming platform confirmed the security breach and is investigating it to determine the extent of the incident.
The company said that they do not indicate that login credentials and credit card numbers have been exposed.
Twitch provided today with an update about its investigation and announced to have reset all stream keys as a precautionary measure.
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