Twitch
Hack of source code and financial information from the Amazon-owned video game livestreaming platform Twitch.
While little is known about the hacker's motives, it's speculated to have been retaliation for organized harassment campaigns faced by the site's users.
Media Coverage
- Daily Dot: Twitch creators’ incomes, source code part of massive data leak
- Daily Dot: Twitch leak reveals prominent QAnon streamer made $150,000 in 2 years
- The Verge: Twitch’s security problems started long before this week’s hack
- The Verge: Twitch defaced with pictures of Jeff Bezos
- Washington Post: The Twitch hack revealed much more than streamer salaries
- Vice: ‘Urgent Pizza’: The Untold Story of the Largest Hack in Twitch’s History
- Middle East Eye: Turkey: Hackers allegedly used streaming platform Twitch to launder $10m
- Washington Post: Turkish police detain 40 people over Twitch streamer money laundering scheme