Twitch Data Breach
In October 2021, Amazon-owned live video streaming service Twitch suffered a catastrophic data leak when an anonymous threat actor published a 125 GB torrent archive on an online forum.
Exposed Data Types
6- Streamer payout and revenue records
- Proprietary Git source code repositories
- Internal AWS security tools
- Unreleased digital storefront code (Vapor)
- Internal threat modeling files
- User account identifiers
About This Breach
The breach exposed Twitch's entire source code repository, commit histories dating back to its origins, and payout records detailing financial earnings for millions of streamers between 2019 and 2021. The leaked repository also contained internal Amazon Web Services cloud security tools and source code for an unreleased digital storefront codenamed Vapor.
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