Twitch got hacked

[Unforgivenn]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...y-been-leaked/


Credit card numbers
Payments history (have a streamer that got 9million usd in a year)
Database
Sourcecode
Curseforge

Better u guys change your passwords now

[Edge-]

CC info should be safe per their update today. Still worth keeping an eye on just in case.

Also, don't save CC info/use 2 factor authentication.

[Crissi]

Doesnt include credit card numbers as of right now btw. But yeah, this is kinda hillarious.

[Edge-]

But yeah, this is kinda hillarious.

I feel bad for some of the lower grossing streamers having info leaked, but considerably less bad for the streamers who are making enough off Twitch to have their own Scrooge McDuck rooms of money, even without sponsorships and off-platform partnerships factored in.

But man, Twitch just cannot catch a break. It feels like they stumble from one unforced error to the next, to the occasional bombshell like this every now and then.

[Daedius]

Got a notification to change my pass yesterday. Added 2FA too.

[Benggaul]

I feel bad for some of the lower grossing streamers having info leaked, but considerably less bad for the streamers who are making enough off Twitch to have their own Scrooge McDuck rooms of money, even without sponsorships and off-platform partnerships factored in.

Their payouts being leaked isn't that big a deal since anyone can pretty easily get a ballpark figure on how much they earn any time they want. Sit through one stream to tally donations and multiply that by the number of times they stream in a month, then add that to 2.5 times their subs (assuming their subs are set to the minimum 4.99$). Voila, rough monthly earnings. Not flawless math by any means because obviously there are also tier 2/3 subs and daily donations/bits vary but as I said it gets you in the ballpark.

[ghotihook]

Their payouts being leaked isn't that big a deal since anyone can pretty easily get a ballpark figure on how much they earn any time they want. Sit through one stream to tally donations and multiply that by the number of times they stream in a month, then add that to 2.5 times their subs (assuming their subs are set to the minimum 4.99$). Voila, rough monthly earnings. Not flawless math by any means because obviously there are also tier 2/3 subs and daily donations/bits vary but as I said it gets you in the ballpark.

Yea, that's kind of what I thought too. It's incredibly easy with basic math to get a reasonably close guess, hell there are websites that already track subs of many of the big streamers. When Disguised Toast released the percent of money they get from subs a few years ago I quickly used it to calculate what some of the streamers I watched make.

[breadisfunny]

Got a notification to change my pass yesterday. Added 2FA too.

i must have added it to a email i either no longer have access to or forgot the password for. since none of main one got a notification. or maybe it already got hacked and twitch didn't send me a notification since the email has since been switched. i only got it for the promotion for hearthstone/hots. i forgot witch one.

also the way ars technica presented it made it sound like it was just solely source code that got leaked not any personal info which was why i didnt even do anything till today.
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CC info should be safe per their update today. Still worth keeping an eye on just in case.

Also, don't save CC info/use 2 factor authentication.

i never EVER save cc info for exactly that reason.

[Daedius]

i must have added it to a email i either no longer have access to or forgot the password for. since none of main one got a notification. or maybe it already got hacked and twitch didn't send me a notification since the email has since been switched. i only got it for the promotion for hearthstone/hots. i forgot witch one.

also the way ars technica presented it made it sound like it was just solely source code that got leaked not any personal info which was why i didnt even do anything till today.

I use Dashlane, they scan the dark Web if any of my accounts have been compromised... was them I got the notification off.

[breadisfunny]

I use Dashlane, they scan the dark Web if any of my accounts have been compromised... was them I got the notification off.

so twitch doesn't even do the basic send you a email notice notifying you of an account change that almost every other website uses..........cause when i change emails to other emails i use my old email gets sent a notice from just about every website i do it with...

[Daedius]

so twitch doesn't even do the basic send you a email notice notifying you of an account change that almost every other website uses..........

Got nothing from Twitch themselves. Hell, there's a news article of it on the website I frequent today despite it happening yesterday.

[breadisfunny]

Got nothing from Twitch themselves. Hell, there's a news article of it on the website I frequent today despite it happening yesterday.

so they don't even use basic security measures.....this is asking for it. unfortunately i don't even remember the name of the account i put it under so i can't even reset it.

[PACOX]

Got an email that said tgey reset all stream keys.

[downnola]

It's wild to me that people can earn that kind of money just from streaming themselves playing video games. Good for them, at least they're not earning that money being a net-negative for society by shorting stocks and ruining people's livelihoods.

[Orby]

It's wild to me that people can earn that kind of money just from streaming themselves playing video games. Good for them, at least they're not earning that money being a net-negative for society by shorting stocks and ruining people's livelihoods.

And they all pay more taxes than Jeff Bezos :P

[DarkAmbient]

I was really surprised at the earnings of people with low average viewers. I sometimes watch a Dark Souls streamer who barely scrapes over 100 viewers and I kind of felt bad for her until I found out she's earning a full time wage and that's not including donations or sponsorships.

[The Stormbringer]

I was really surprised at the earnings of people with low average viewers. I sometimes watch a Dark Souls streamer who barely scrapes over 100 viewers and I kind of felt bad for her until I found out she's earning a full time wage and that's not including donations or sponsorships.

It definitely varies, though. I watch another streamer who averages around maybe 50-75 viewers, and they're not even making minimum wage despite doing this full-time. It can be rough to see people trying so hard and still struggling like that.

[DarkAmbient]

It definitely varies, though. I watch another streamer who averages around maybe 50-75 viewers, and they're not even making minimum wage despite doing this full-time. It can be rough to see people trying so hard and still struggling like that.

The sad thing is even with such low viewers they're still probably in the top 1%.

[Nihilist74]

I am lucky I don't have any important information on twitch. Ever since this breach, I have not been able to get my twitch account to connect to my youtube account. It is really annoying. It makes it harder to transfer my twitch videos to youtube.

[The Stormbringer]

The sad thing is even with such low viewers they're still probably in the top 1%.

Do you mean top 1% globally, as in "the richest 1% of all humans on the planet"...? Or top 1% of Twitch?