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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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This is going to BLOW up the twitch gaming community with all the infighting now that everyone knows how much everyone else makes. Wow.

Highly doubtful. Anyone who was already making money from twitch knows how the payment system works and can guess how much someone else makes based on views/subs. Anyone not on the inside already had access to website that gave close enough estimates.

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

#452

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So in theory, FAANG could make billions of a random person's GPL'd code and they'd never know.

amazon and google both created managed version of popular open source software like grafana and airflow and they are priced at a premium.

grafana is agplv3 but grafana the company has a deal with amazon to grant them a special licence

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

#453

Here's a link to the data: bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDpONUJMWjZYRUNORUhIQVJISk9WUUFTNFc3VFdSWENTSSZkbj10d2l0Y2gtbGVha3MtcGFydC1vbmUmdHI9dWRwJTNBJTJGJTJGb3Blbi5zdGVhbHRoLnNpJTNBODAlMkZhbm5vdW5jZQ==

Here's a base64 decoded version: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:N5BLZ6XECNEHHARHJOVQAS4W7TWRXCSI&dn=twitch-leaks-part-one&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce

jesus, do you want to taste the banhammer?

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

#454

Hi ya'll, I have a question. My wife and I can't wrap our brains around the fact that payment info was leaked alongside source code . Any theories how this happened? Former pentester btw. I saw a lot of interesting things during my time, but I can't recall seeing a payment database next to a source code repo. Did their s3 bucket get popped or something? Even if their github enterprise got popped, that doesn't explain…

The source code details how to access the payment data, probably, for dashboards, etc.

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

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I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?

The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.

If you have a seedbox, you're probably safe.

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

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Just spend 2 minutes and change your password instead of spending 2 minutes thinking about whether you should.

Then you would not be solving the problem because you need to change everywhere else you used that same password.

Reusing passwords is one of the single dumbest things you can do online these days. Do not recycle passwords. Ever.

Why? Any breach that involves usernames/passwords are account name and password combos that get tried on EVERY POSSIBLE SITE after.

It only takes one pair of username with a reused password for this to work.

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

#457

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This is a readily solvable problem i.e. the only phone number I use/give online is a VOIP# that just redirects to voicemail immediately (and blocks the call if it's on my SPAMMER list of persistent annoyances). For friends/family they have my cell# and it only lets calls through if they're in my contacts.

It’s readily solvable not to require a phone number to add a TOTP app.

The point isn't to authenticate control of an account, it's to tie the account to some kind of expensive-to-replicate real-world cost, ideally one that most potential customers are already paying for.

Phone numbers are nice because the marginal cost to a customer is low (they probably already have one) while the marginal cost to a bad actor is high (it's expensive to acquire many of them or to change one once it's been identified as malicious).

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

#459

Hi ya'll, I have a question. My wife and I can't wrap our brains around the fact that payment info was leaked alongside source code . Any theories how this happened? Former pentester btw. I saw a lot of interesting things during my time, but I can't recall seeing a payment database next to a source code repo. Did their s3 bucket get popped or something? Even if their github enterprise got popped, that doesn't explain…

Amouranth made $92,949 licking a microphone - LOL. What a world.

In a month. Plus donations. Plus youtube. Plus only fans. Plus I'm sure she sells merch.

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

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Are you kidding? 4.8M / year is stellar revenue. Much much more than most people make in a lifetime. It's even more interesting that for 50k gross, you have to beat this guy "DEMOLITION_D" at the #4432 place.

That is literally the top earner in the community made up by a team of people. The media/VC etc community has been hyping e-gaming as the new sports domain. That said the top salary for a sports player is $168M / year for one player (Lionel Messi) and number 99 is $35M/year (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_sports_contrac... ) It really shows how much of a step change there is between the sports…

Note that streaming is a completely different revenue source than esports earnings. Top esports earners might not even stream at all.
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