Earthquake on Twitch: All users’ data may have been stolen!

With more than 140 million monthly active users and more than 9 million publishers, Twitch, the world’s largest broadcasting platform, is shaken with a big claim. According to the latest information, the data of millions of users may have been stolen.

According to the news from the VideoGamesChronicles front, an unknown hacker managed to steal tens of thousands of confidential data and source codes of Twitch.

Twitch streamers’ monthly income has also been leaked

The alleged attack that the Twitch platform is currently facing is unlike anything we’ve seen before. As a matter of fact, the hacker, who allegedly stole thousands of confidential data, including user data, Twitch source codes, encrypted passwords and monthly income of Twitch publishers, shared this data as a 125 GB torrent file via 4chan.

A number of Twitter users, who download and examine the files uploaded by the anonymous hacker, state that even the monthly payments made by Twitch to famous publishers can be viewed. As you can see from the image above, the payments that publishers such as xQcOW, Hasanabi and Shroud received from Twitch in September are stated in cents per cent.

However, it is said that confidential information about a game platform designed by Amazon Games Studios to rival Steam has also emerged. It was announced that among the data stolen by the hacker, even all the comments written since the day the platform was founded are included.

Sinoc, one of the first to announce the subject to users, said:

“Twitch. TV leaked. The entire website; Web version with source codes and comments on many console/mobile versions, a game platform to rival Steam, payments, encrypted passwords and similar things… You may want to change your password. ”

-Sinoc.

At this stage, although there is no official confirmation that users’ credit cards and passwords have been stolen, the situation seems quite serious. Twitch users are advised to enable the two-factor security feature as soon as possible and change their account password immediately. Although there is no official statement from the Twitch front yet, the fact that the owner of the famous broadcasting platform is Amazon makes the crisis more critical.

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