Twitch says source code was exposed in last week’s data breach

Amazon-owned Steaming Platform Twitch has said that last week’s data breach on the live streaming e-sports platform involved documents from its source code. Passwords, login credentials, full credit card numbers and bank details of users were not used or exposed in the breach, Twitch said in a statement. The platform, which is used by video gamers to interact with users while live streaming content, had blamed the breach on an error in a server configuration change.

Server configuration changes are made during server maintenance. A faulty configuration can expose the data stored in the server to unauthorized access. Twitch said it was “convinced” that the incident affected only a small number of users and that it was contacting those who were directly affected. The platform has an average daily visitors of over 30 million.

Video Game Chronicle reported that nearly 125 gigabytes of data were leaked in the breach, including details of Twitch’s highest-paid video game streamers since 2019, such as the $9.6 million (approximately $9.6 million) lost to voice actors of popular games. 72 crores). The report states that “Dungeons and Dragons” and Canadian streamer xQcOW have been given $8.4 million (approximately Rs 63 crore).