Twitch say logins and credit card numbers weren't exposed in hack

2 years 7 months ago

Livestreaming platform Twitch was recently hacked, hard, and a huge chunk of yoinked data was leaked publicly yesterday. Source code for the site and loads of Twitch projects were shared in a 128GB torrent, along with earnings numbers for streamers. Twitch say they "are still in the process of understanding the impact in detail" but so far, it seems login credentials and credit card numbers are safe. They have also reset stream keys, just in case.

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Alice O'Connor