Twitch leak didn’t contain user passwords and credit card information
At least some good news from this mess.
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The morning after the night before, theTwitch leakis still one of the hottest talking points. The Amazon-owned platform is continuing its investigations, but as our pals over atPCGamerhave reported, it’s about as bad as it could be for Twitch.
However, there is some good news to come from all of this mess. On ablog postupdating the situation, Twitch has confirmed that user passwords and credit card information were not compromised.
“At this time, we have no indication that login credentials have been exposed. We are continuing to investigate.Additionally, full credit card numbers are not stored by Twitch, so full credit card numbers were not exposed.”
It’s still a good idea to change your password if you haven’t in a while, and this sorry affair is another reminder that you should definitely make sure you havetwo-factor authentication (2FA)enabled on your Twitch account.
Details are still scarce, but Twitch has at least indicated how this might have happened:
" We have learned that some data was exposed to the internet due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party."
It’s been a pretty tough week for these big social platforms, with first a server-related snafu at Facebook taking the entire company offline, and now this. Twitch has also been under much (deserved) scrutiny in recent weeks and months for how it looks after its users, with the #DoBetterTwitch tag even applied to this data breach.
The latest update to the breach has also seen Twitch reset all stream keys out of an abundance of caution. You’ll need to claim your new one from your stream settings on the site, or if you’re using an app like OBS which is linked to the service you will need to link your account again to be able to stream.
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