In the first week of October, Twitch suffered one of the biggest hack attacks in history. Along with the source codes of the platform, the details of the payment made to the publishers were revealed in full. Amazon’s plans to establish a Steam rival game platform, which has not been mentioned so far, have also been revealed.
Making a statement after the attack, Twitch said, “We can confirm that the breach occurred. Our teams continue to work to understand the extent of this.” The most important point that users are worried about is, your passwords and credit card information it was stolen. The company cleared up the confusion on this issue.
Earthquake on Twitch: All users’ data stolen!
Twitch, one of the largest online broadcasting platforms in the world, faced a huge hacking attack, according to the latest information.
Twitch: We’re sure credit card numbers weren’t stolen
In his statement on the Twitch blog page, he touched on the reason for the violation in question. “The event is the result of a server configuration change. accidental access by an unauthorized third party The company stressed that teams acted quickly to fix configuration issues and restore security.
In addition, Twitch states that the data exposed is only for the platform. from the source code repository He stated that it consisted of files and information about payments made to some publishers. He claimed that the security breach only harmed a small group of users. also that passwords are not affected He also underlined the following:
To systems with Twitch logins encrypted with Bcyript as there is no unauthorized access and we are also confident that full credit card numbers or ACH/bank details are not exposed.
Company’s private information allegedly leaked
At the time of the security breach, on a popular forum site 125GB in size A torrent file has been shared. It was estimated that it contained the company’s private information and commitment history. However, there was no explanation from Twitch regarding this. According to the information that emerged, Twitch released its popular publishers in September. Between 37 thousand and 752 thousand dollars made payments.
Twitch also reset stream keys to protect streamers from potential threats.