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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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Post by cedilla »

hnick wrote: post #116
dannyw wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Dozens? The 4chan post said "almost 6,000 internal Git repositories". We don't use git at work (TFS, yay), and we definitely aren't on their scale, but that seems high to me. Do they have a repo for every class? Is this normal?

If they use the common github approach of one fork per contributor, 6,000 repos accumulate quickly.

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

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Post by bawolff »

Deukhoofd wrote: post #52
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…

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.

Git is one thing, but random db dumps is pretty surprising to me.

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

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Post by BeefWellington »

hnick wrote: post #116
dannyw wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Dozens? The 4chan post said "almost 6,000 internal Git repositories". We don't use git at work (TFS, yay), and we definitely aren't on their scale, but that seems high to me. Do they have a repo for every class? Is this normal?

Note it doesn't say unique git repositories. It could just mean each employee's fork is included in that count, which would inflate the number like that.

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

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Post by swarnie »

TwoNineA wrote: post #110
swarnie wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You "purchased" a "service". Without the payment the service wouldn't be accessible

It was a public concert, freely accessible to anyone.

You must know that's a very atypical business model....

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

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Post by ohmahjong »

meheleventyone wrote: post #102
the_duke wrote: post #92

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The difference is that Twitch viewers are already consuming the content for free. Subscribing or donations are completely optional. ( subscriptions get rid of the adds, but I doubt that's a main driver)

I dunno if you know this but you don't have to pay for the Marvel movies either.

You don't have to get bootleg twitch streams to watch them for free

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

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Post by meheleventyone »

ohmahjong wrote: post #126
meheleventyone wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno if you know this but you don't have to pay for the Marvel movies either.

You don't have to get bootleg twitch streams to watch them for free

Yes the monetization models are slightly different. You can still watch both for free though.

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Post by ryanmarsh »

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…

In the vernacular, I ain't clickin that shit

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

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Post by junon »

meibo wrote: post #53
junon wrote: post #51

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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.

The problem isn't the product. I was going to compete with Steam at one point and we had objectively better systems and a better client.

The problem was the critical mass issue - no users, no publishers, neither want to join without the other.

Amazon will definitely get publishers but will users join? That's not a given.

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