Twitch stripped, hacker attack reveals passwords and earnings of all streamers

A large amount of data regarding Twitch, we talk about about 130 GB of information, was made available via torrent after the attack by an as yet unidentified group of hackers. This is a very serious violation for the popular streaming site which contains all the passwords of its subscribers and many other sensitive data also concerning some projects under development.

Twitch apparently was aware of the theft, which would have occurred on October 4th. Among the leaked information are Twitch source codes, the history of all comments, client source codes, dev kits, details of some Twitch proprietary tools, and information on the security keys of the streamers with which it is. possible to broadcast on the various channels (even without knowing the account’s). The hackers would also have their hands on information regarding the compensation of streamers from 2019 to today and on some details of Vapor, code name of a mysterious project that would aim to compete with Steam, the largest PC game store.

The data released online show how the streamers who have earned the most, thanks to Twitch, are part of the project CriticalRole, which is the most famous streaming role-playing show in the world: between donations and subscriptions, the channel would have accumulated about ten million dollars from August 2019 to October 2021. These figures are obviously all to be verified.

It is unclear whether the theft also includes passwords for personal and business profiles. According to some sources, the torrent in question contains only part of the stolen material.