Massive Twitch leak reveals company secrets - better change your password

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The anonymous hacker claims to have leaked the data in retaliation for the Amazon-owned company being a ‘disgusting toxic cesspool’.

, from its source code to details of how much people are paid, is part of a major 125GB leak.

An anonymous hacker hasn’t just obtained some passwords or insider information, they’ve managed to download almost everything that makes the service what it is – including its source code. The original 4chan post uses the hashtag #DoBetterTwitch, which has previously been used by people upset that Twitch doesn’t do enough to protect minorities and guard against things like hate raids.

For obvious reasons we’re not going to get into any of the details, but the leak supposedly includes SDKs and internal AWS tools, as well as red teaming tools used to test the software against hackers , and source code for other properties like IGDB and CurseForge.

 

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