A hacker would have exposed all of twitch on the Internet

Update Twitter finally confirmed the hacking of its confidential data in a tweet posted at 5: 20 p.m. and promises to give users more information once its teams have fully understood this security breach and its consequences.

As always in this case, users of the platform are advised to change their password, even if twitch has not yet expressed a reaction when writing these lines. The documents on display appear to include all of twitch's source code, stream revenues since 2019, twitch customers for mobile, PC and console, development kits, information from all other Twitter properties (including IGDB and CurseForge), or internal tools designed to improve platform security. There is also talk of a so-called potential competitor of steam signed Amazon Games whose codename is vapor (brilliant).

For those interested in the subject, the streamer ZeratoR spoke on Twitter confirming that the revenue figures that circulate in the form of tables are authentic, while providing context on their nature and the fact that they often represent only part of the economy of creators, the most famous of whom can also earn money from sponsored content, merchandising and the donation system.

According to the hacker, the 128 GB of content is only part of his loot, but the perpetrator has not revealed what he still plans to display on the net. The hacker sees this action as a way to offend twitch who has often been accused of not taking enough action to combat the most problematic and toxic members of his community. Last month, a group of streamers organized a # ADayOfftwitch campaign and called for a 24-hour boycott of the platform to alert to "hate raids" against some creators.

"hate spam attacks are committed by highly motivated malicious actors and there is no simple solution. Your reports have helped us to take action: we have continuously updated our prohibited word filters throughout the site to prevent variations in hate insults, and deleted robots once they have been identified [...] however, as we work on solutions, malicious users are working in parallel to find ways to circumvent them-which is why we can't always share the details," explained twitch in the process.