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

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Post by Nextgrid »

herbst wrote: post #55
rvz wrote: 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

Payment information would be tokenized and can only be used with their own merchant account. I'd be very surprised if they stored raw card data.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

trinovantes wrote: post #46
erk__ wrote: post #35

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

It seems the payouts follow the power law. Around 100 millionaires, around 2k people at $100k, and the 10kth person at $25k

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

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Post by AegirLeet »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #26
elaus wrote: post #12

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They block links that have HN as referer and redirect them to a NSFW image. But if you copy that URL and paste it in the browser it will work.

Hmmm. I thought I had something in Firefox (setting or addon) that didn't send referrers for external sites when you click-opened a link in a new tab. But it doesn't seem like it anymore.

There are a number of settings for this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

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

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Post by onedr0p »

y4mi wrote: post #48
hkai wrote: post #33

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.

It's sarcasm my dude. Twitch is notorious for giving female streamers a pass when it comes to nudity or inappropriate behavior, all the while banning male members for accidentally clicking on a NSFW link and it being shown on steam for seconds.

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

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Post by Shacklz »

uyt wrote: post #59
pixxel wrote: post #36

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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)

I hope I didn't misread the numbers but to my understanding it's just what they get from twitch directly (ads/subscriptions share), most streamers probably make significant amounts in donations on top of that, and probably have secondary revenue streams via YouTube (stream highlights etc.)

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

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Post by vscodered »

y4mi wrote: post #48
hkai wrote: post #33

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.

>there are girls wearing bikinis and underwear on camera

Is it really hot in their rooms or are they sex workers?

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

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Post by Semaphor »

onedr0p wrote: post #64
y4mi wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's sarcasm my dude. Twitch is notorious for giving female streamers a pass when it comes to nudity or inappropriate behavior, all the while banning male members for accidentally clicking on a NSFW link and it being shown on steam for seconds.

A channel I mod got a 1-day suspension because you could see the crack of a drunk guy mooning them (despite instantly stopping the stream and deleting the VOD before starting again). A few weeks before, two girls flashed them. That obviously did not warrant a ban.

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Post by kawsper »

stevecat wrote: post #41
d3nj4l wrote: post #23

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The E71 was a god tier device. Owned one for a good bit as a teen and it was the perfect phone for that time IMO. You could even WhatsApp on it until relatively recently.

Yep! E71, E72, and E6 were some of my most loved phones. My love of that form factor meant that my first foray into Android was the HTC ChaCha - that was a mistake.

I had a Qtek 8300 running Windows Mobile 5.0, it really felt like a computing device before smart phones appeared.

It was slow and buggy, but it felt like a handheld computer.

Qtek rebranded to HTC and I bought a HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6.0, I am not sure when or what I switched to afterwards, maybe an Android.

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

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Post by secondaryacct »

dannyw wrote: post #34
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #31

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…

The leak contains much more than this FYI, there's a hundred gigabytes of code and resources from dozens of repositories. Looks like someone dumped everything on their github enterprise. I wonder if this'll lead to software engineers in big companies having more restricted access to code?

It s already the case and actually a big fight we re having (company of 70k employees spread everywhere) because we cant reverse engineer our upstream and downstream systems and it leads to huge bottlenecks trying to understand them when issues arise, as we need other teams etc.

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

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Post by BlargMcLarg »

uyt wrote: post #59
pixxel wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Keep in mind this is just what they make which Twitch knows about. Plenty of sponsorships, tournaments and other income streams exist for a majority of these people.

On top of that, besides their eceleb status, most of these people aren't that professional. Plenty of them are a combination of variety or casual, often to a degree the person isn't even that good in games in general.

Their production quality also isn't anywhere near amazing (note it can be both organic and high quality), and other parties (e.g. Hololive) have shown how easily the space can be disrupted. For those curious, notice how many top streamers still lack actual high quality audio (mostly from their own lack of voice training rather than equipment), proper schedules and sticking to those schedules, high quality video when applicable (e.g. bad light), allow themselves to get devolved in politics, allow their streams to go majorly off-track in general, etc. It's not like these guys don't have the means to drastically improve it.

And the obvious: we don't have anywhere as much of a shortage of people willing to play games in an extremely dedicated manner as doing software development.

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