Twitch Data Dump
A gargantuan theft of data from Amazon-owned streaming giant Twitch has spilled vast swaths of the platform’s contents onto the internet for all to see.
On Oct. 6th, an anonymous leaker posted a 125GB cache of Twitch’s data to 4chan as a torrent. Among many other things, the leak included the company’s source code, internal company documents, and red teaming tools. It also revealed the salaries and other personal information of some of the platform’s biggest stars and channel operators—causing no small amount of controversy. Twitch has clarified that its data was actually exposed to the web as the result of “an error in a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party.” In other words, Twitch got itself into trouble with its own security hiccup.
The anonymous culprit behind the leak claims to have carried it out to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space.” They also called Twitch a “disgusting toxic cesspool,” one that “we have completely pwnd.”
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