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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam. Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which was arguably based on one of Sun's most prized possessions; Java.

It won't work, I don't understand why they're bothering. You can't compete with steam, unless you're trying to hit a niche market.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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> Twitch is aware of the breach, the source said, and it’s believed that the data was obtained as recently as Monday. Does that mean that Twitch has very poor security systems that the entire infrastructure and data of Twitch was breached and it all fell into the hands of this so-called hacker? Compared to the Epik breach weeks ago, this one is a lot worse. I don't know what the point around this breach is for but su…

From what I understand there was a way to access their internal enterprise github instance, which gave them access to all the source code, and a bunch of internal documents and database dumps.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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post #51
post #7

> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam. Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which was arguably based on one of Sun's most prized possessions; Java.

It won't work, I don't understand why they're bothering. You can't compete with steam, unless you're trying to hit a niche market.

Amazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoa. Is gross per year or since account creation?! Either way these numbers are insane.

These are numbers since August 2019 as far as I am aware

June 2019 is also included. July 2019 is missing.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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post #49

> Twitch is aware of the breach, the source said, and it’s believed that the data was obtained as recently as Monday. Does that mean that Twitch has very poor security systems that the entire infrastructure and data of Twitch was breached and it all fell into the hands of this so-called hacker? Compared to the Epik breach weeks ago, this one is a lot worse. I don't know what the point around this breach is for but su…

> Waiting for what is in Part 2.

Twitch likely stores a lot of payment information too, i don't see why they would be better secured than anything else in this dump. Could get interesting

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Top earner is a role playing group. How interesting. > A band of professional voice actors improvises, role-plays and rolls their way through a `Dungeon and Dragons' campaign.

Critical Role is a relatively big deal.

They did a Kickstarter to turn the first season of the live DnD campaign into an animated show, which finished at over 10 million.

The rights have been bought by Amazon and it will release on Prime.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

#57
post #7

> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam. Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which was arguably based on one of Sun's most prized possessions; Java.

Kind of a funny choice when "vaporware" is a thing.

Kinda works as a tongue-in-cheek internal code name.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

> PS: Make sure to change your Twitch (and possibly Prime) password. Twitch is already prompting users to do so based on Reddit posts.

This is not worth worrying about. If Twitch is making you reset your password, that means you don’t need to hurry because they’ve already locked your account. If your password hash leaked, the important thing isn’t Twitch, it’s every other place you used the same password.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The revenue in that pastebin have been double counted. The corrected data is here: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam

Whoa. Is gross per year or since account creation?! Either way these numbers are insane.

Insanely high or insanely low? I actually felt kind of weird that I make more as a software engineer than some of these legit celebrities (not the very top ones of course, but still more than many of the ones I follow or have heard of)

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Is this the first major porn site to be hacked?

Twitch is not porn. It's maybe a gateway to onlyfans, but you cannot have sexual content on twitch. Even YouTube allows more nudity then twitch. So yes, there are girls wearing bikinis and underwear on camera, but that's as far as it goes.

That depends on your definition of sexual. If you have someone in underwear with the sole purpose of arousing people of the opposite sex, that is pretty sexual to me.
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