Twitch: That Massive Hack Really Wasn’t That Bad, Y’all, We Swear

In a Friday update, Twitch downplayed the severity of this month’s huge safety incident assuring customers that “the customer impact is minimal” after a 125GB cache of its inner knowledge was leaked on-line.

The uncovered knowledge principally contained paperwork from Twitch’s supply code repository and payout figures for streamers on the platform, in response to an organization blog post. The leak didn’t embody Twitch passwords, and Twitch stated it’s “confident” its programs that retailer consumer login credentials, bank card numbers, and financial institution data weren’t accessed.

“We’ve undergone a thorough review of the information included in the files exposed and are confident that it only affected a small fraction of users and the customer impact is minimal,” Twitch stated. “We are contacting those who have been impacted directly.”

Its inner investigation into the Oct. 6 leak stays ongoing. So far, Twitch has traced it again to a hiccup with a server configuration replace that permit an nameless hacker slip by, make off with the information, and dump it en masse as a torrent on 4chan. The wrongdoer claims to have carried out the large leak to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space.” To add insult to harm, additionally they referred to as Twitch a “disgusting toxic cesspool,” one which has been “completely pwnd” by the safety incident.

The leaked knowledge, which additionally included inner firm paperwork and purple teaming instruments, brought on a massive stir within the streaming neighborhood about how a lot cash among the platform’s largest stars make. Critical Role, a role-playing, tabletop recreation present, raked in roughly $10 million from Twitch over the previous two years, making it the highest-paid channel on the platform, in response to knowledge. Other high streamers like Félix “xQc” Lengyel and Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker made thousands and thousands of {dollars} from subscriptions and different Twitch options courting again to 2019. Fans discovering that lots of their favourite streamers are literally millionaires stirred up no small quantity of controversy.

In the weeks since, Twitch has mounted the vulnerability with its configuration updates and brought steps to beef up its safety programs.

“We take our responsibility to protect your data very seriously,” the corporate stated Friday. “We have taken steps to further secure our service, and we apologize to our community.”