Yesterday twitch came under heavy attack from an anonymous hacker or group of hackers.
The hacker later brandishes their success on the controversial forum 4chan. In their post, they lamented that they are giving away all the data for free, while Amazon had to buy it. They further went on to state that, Twitch is going downhill given their recent wave of hate raids on the platform.
This hate raid has caused Twitch a lot of problems. They have to now do more policing as persons have been creating spamming bots, that marginalize smaller streamers by flooding their chat with hate speech.
Twitch quickly spotted those activities and is now suing two of the alleged culprits behind them.
Amazon purchased Twitch for $970 million in 2014 and the platform had grown in leaps and bounds ever since. The size of the data which was stolen from the breach is said to be approximately 125 GB.
It contains different forms of information that Twitch would’ve liked to keep disclosed. Such as the source code for Twitch.tv; information about Twitch’s mobile, desktop, and game console clients, and various other types of sensitive data.
The sentiment so far has been far from promising from the Twitch streaming community especially those who use Twitter. It goes to show that we still have ways to go as it regards to having a resilient online security system.
This week has been a strange week for certain tech companies where Facebook and Twitch being the most notable ones.
