There has been a hacking attack on Twitch, the popular streaming platform. The attack, The Verge wrote, led to the spreading against the company's will of a series of confidential information about the service, how it works, how much it pays its content creators, and that Amazon (which controls Twitch) was working on a service to compete with Steam, the most popular platform for downloading video games. It seems that Twitch's source code has also been released, which is a series of important structural information necessary for its operation.
The information, wrote The Verge (which confirmed the data has been released), is contained in a 125 gigabyte “torrent” file, initially released on the controversial 4chan site by a user who wrote that he did it to “favor a radical change and greater competition in the online video streaming space ». The file speaks of a “part 1”, thus suggesting that a sequel may arrive.
It does not appear that passwords or other information about Twitch users are part of this information, but as in other similar cases the advice is to change your password anyway and enable two-factor authentication, for those who have not already done so. . If the user is also a streamer, it is advisable to also change his “stream key”.
