“Twitch Was Predicted That It Would Be Hacked”

According to the statements made by former employees of the company to The Verge, the latest hacking event was inevitable due to Twitch’s security methods being bad. Captured by a hacker and leaked to the internet On 125GB data, Twitch’s confidential documents, future plans and payment information to broadcasters.

The person who claimed and shared the attack, shared the Twitch community. “toxic” had defined. Such a serious violation actually seemed very unlikely to some. This past August, streamers’ exposure to uncontrollable hate speech spam erupted on Twitch.

Streamers exposed to hate spam have come together to draw attention to this issue with the hashtag #twitchdobetter.

To encourage Twitch to take security measures to stop the wave of hate, broadcasters are holding a meeting on September 1st. organized a strike.

Twitch responded to the complaints of the publishers on this event; Asking them to be patient, he promised to work on tools to help better protect publishers and their communities.

But hate spam didn’t suddenly appear this summer. According to a former Twitch employee, the event in August started long before it exploded.

Between 2017-2019 working on Twitch and an anonymous source said employees were concerned about safety, but management was not concerned enough. Management wasn’t responding quickly enough to this displeasure at Twitch.

Another source is that although Twitch actually encounters security issues on a regular basis, they prefer not to disclose says. According to the source, a security issue also occurred in 2017, the platform faced new risks, but this issue was not announced.

Scammers are allegedly able to contact streamers requesting revenue sharing from their Twitch Prime subscriptions.

Source says it’s Twitch accounts hacked Amazon accounts He claims that it caused him to connect to Amazon, and states that because of this leak, attackers can now see shortcuts and APIs for internal Amazon services.

Since Amazon Prime Gaming generates revenue for publishers through subscriptions, the source is that it’s aimed at monetization. A new attack vector for hackers warns it could happen.

All this suggests that something similar to the configuration error that occurred this week seems inevitable.

Twitch also added some in 2015. unauthorized access to accounts experienced a security issue. This new breach exposed massive amounts of data on the internet, leaving Twitch no choice but to admit it. Twitch is now struggling to find out exactly how much data was stolen in this hack.

Sources: The Verge, NTV