by Chris Black
An anonymous hacker on the 4chan messaging board claims to have leaked the entirety of Twitch online, including its source code and user payout information. (Video Games Chronicle)
The data breach is believed to have been obtained as recently as Monday and has been released as a 125GB torrent labelled as “part one.”
The leak reportedly contains the following:
▪️3 years’ worth of details regarding creator payouts on Twitch
▪️The entirety of twitch.tv – with comment history “going back to its early years”
▪️Source code for the mobile, desktop, and video game console Twitch clients
▪️An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor from Amazon Game Studios
▪️Data on other Twitch properties like IGDB and CurseForge
▪️Twitch’s internal security tools
The entirety of Twitch got leaked, including source code and creator payouts: xQcOW, Ibai, Asmongold, shroud and more.t.co/uQWZx8cZ33 pic.twitter.com/WYUzcJJ4Me
— Instant Gaming (@InstantGamingEN) October 6, 2021