Earlier this week saw Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram all go down in a supposed hacking incident. However, that wasn't the only major thing to happen this Monday; apparently, Twitch was hacked, with an anonymous source posting a 125GB torrent onto 4chan today that contained user data and other sensitive information from the website. Reportedly, this data dump contains a wide variety of different things, such as the source code for Twitch, private SDKs, information about payouts that live streamers receive, clients for various platforms that Twitch is available on, and even data pertaining to other websites that Twitch owns such as IGDB and CurseForge.

Beyond that, there also appears to be an unreleased PC storefront for digital games, with the codename of Vapor, intended to compete against Steam and the Epic Games Store. As for the leaked passwords, they are reportedly encrypted. Regardless, it would be wise to change your password, or even turn on two-factor authentication for Twitch if you haven't already.

According to news outlet VGC, who broke the initial story, the following is in the torrent:

• The entirety of Twitch’s source code with comment history “going back to its early beginnings”
• Creator payout reports from 2019
• Mobile, desktop and console Twitch clients
• Proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch
• “Every other property that Twitch owns” including IGDB and CurseForge
• An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios
• Twitch internal ‘red teaming’ tools (designed to improve security by having staff pretend to be hackers)

According to the 4chan post, the hacker uploaded the leak in order to cause disruption and competition for Twitch, as they find the community to be toxic. While nothing else has been uploaded quite yet, the user claims that they will be leaking even more files soon in the future.

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[Foxi4]

I wouldn’t worry too much if I was running Twitch - out of those 125GB’s at least 120GB’s must’ve been the ToS. That platform is ridiculous, it’s a shame that competition is scarce.

 

[plasma]

Only good thing that comes from this for an end-user is potentially better ad-blocking, because twitch's ads are extremely intrusive and stupid.

 

[SexiestManAlive]

i just deleted my twitch account, and changed my email password, lol

 

[plasma]

i just deleted my twitch account, and changed my email password, lol

the pros of using a password you never used before, the one they have won't work anymore

 

[osaka35]

Streaming is fun, but i got to the game too late. youtube game streaming is somewhat competitive, but mainly populated by big names they were able to poach from twitch, so it may not be a good place for growth. plus it's missing a lot of the essential tools. Any up-and-coming alternatives to twitch?

 

[Karones]

It seems there's a lot of hate towards Twitch around here, is it because of the company or the large communities? I only use it for a few small streamers so I probably live in a bubble.

 

[HarveyHouston]

Whew! That was a close one! My buddy Timbrwulf closed his Twitch account about a year ago, and he barely used it anyhow. I feel glad for him!

Personally, I'm not fond of Twitch for much of anything. It's owned by Amazon, and it's limited unless you pay for premium. Frankly, I'd use something like Discord for live feed.

 

[IncredulousP]

It seems there's a lot of hate towards Twitch around here, is it because of the company or the large communities? I only use it for a few small streamers so I probably live in a bubble.

Hating something that was shown to be weak provides a false sense of security.

 

[ChrisMCNBVA]

I have no problems with twitch, I have a lot of streams I watch on it especially marathons for different charaties like zeldathon (playing zelda games and doing fun stuff for donations) it keeps me busy during the day and i have been a fan for a long time now I don't understand the hate toward it, makes me shake my head, just like many other things in this crazy mixed up world lately.

 

[Gamemaster1379]

Is there even a way to enable 2 factor authentication without a phone?

Technically yes. If you use a service like Twilio you could script up a little app to pass through SMS codes from the phone number.

If it's not SMS 2fa and instead something like Authenticator, any smart device would suffice since that doens't require phone service, just the device. I'd recommend Authy over Authenticator though.

 

[Deleted member 417169]

It seems there's a lot of hate towards Twitch around here, is it because of the company or the large communities? I only use it for a few small streamers so I probably live in a bubble.

I can't speak for here in particular as I'm relatively new, but I've seen it get lots of hate from people who hate companies virtue signaling (e.g. banning words like "simp"), and from people who hate how much income they take from streamers.

 

[ChiefReginod]

(e.g. banning words like "simp")

Not surprising, considering that's at least half of their user base.

 

[Fugelmir]

What is Twitch and why should I care?

Twitch is a very nice platform where out-of-work/failed pornstars can make some money without having to experience prolapse.

 

[M7L7NK7]

It seems there's a lot of hate towards Twitch around here, is it because of the company or the large communities? I only use it for a few small streamers so I probably live in a bubble.

It's cool to hate stuff for no real reason

Should stream fortnite on twitch and play nickelback, people would lose their minds

 

[Tomato123]

Checked over the leak and it does not contain any passwords or database data. It's all just git repos (excluding the revenue data).

I would still recommend changing passwords though as you never know what else could have been taken and just not leaked to the public. (They probably did call the leak "part one" for a reason.)

 

[mightymuffy]

Funniest bit of this was the 4chan link slagging off Twitch as a "disgusting toxic cesspool"
Ooh the irony....

 

[Viri]

Twitch is a very nice platform where out-of-work/failed pornstars can make some money without having to experience prolapse.

Lol, I just looked her videos up. She was okay.

 

[the_randomizer]

Video game streams should be the only thing on Twitch IMO, hot tub streams and other like videos are just boring

 

[Viri]

Video game streams should be the only thing on Twitch IMO, hot tub streams and other like videos are just boring

I don't even understand them. Why don't they just go to My Free Cams, or some other lewd cam sites? It's the same shit, except the girls actually get naked, and for enough tips, they'll give you a "private show".

I agree, Twitch should be a GAMING stream site. Twitch is fucked up for allowing this to go on, and they know damn well it is.

 

[the_randomizer]

I don't even understand them. Why don't they just go to My Free Cams, or some other lewd cam sites? It's the same shit, except the girls actually get naked, and for enough tips, they'll give you a "private show".

Exactly, they're a waste of bandwidth