4chan has leaked several of Twitch TV’s streamers payout among other sensitive data which have been termed ‘the entirety of Twitch’ by an Anonymous individual.
Cyber attacks against big companies have increased in frequency recently. Individuals or groups of hackers are constantly trying to get their noses inside of big companies and reveal their internal facts and figures to the general public.
Recently a massive nearly 125 GigaBytes of data has been leaked on the internet and the data comes from the online streaming platform Twitch TV. Several confidential data including the payout of Twitch Streamers have been made public by the individual.
Let us learn more about the anonymous individual and the 4chan discussion forum where he has dumped the data.
4chan: Leak Twitch Creator Payouts
4chan has leaked several Twitch creators’ and streamers’ payouts recently.
4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
One of the unregistered users has posted over 125 GigaBytes of Twitch’s internal>The Record.
The files contain several of Twitch’s confidential information including the payouts of the content creators on the platform.
Other than knowing how rich our favorite streamers are, we can also know about Twitch’s unreleased new Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios.
It contains Twitch SOC internal red teaming tools. However, the data we should worry about is Twitch’s user identity and authentication mechanisms, admin management tools, and data from Twitch’s internal security team.
The leak also included white-boarded threat models describing various parts of Twitch’s backend infrastructure. Paving the way for numerous new attacks if Twitch delays the repair or restructure their entire program.
Twitch Source Code On Reddit
Twitch source codes have been leaked and are circulating on several social media platforms including Reddit.
The anonymous hacker who has dumped over 125GB of data has claimed the leak contains source code from over 6000 repositories.
According to Engadget, this is only the first edition of a massive leak said the Hacker.
The leak is said to be the counterattack for the Hate Raid that forced streamers to take a day off.
Hate Raid on Twitch was a bot or a group of bots posting hateful comments and abusive texts on the streamers live.
Although Twitch was working on fixing the issue, they have said it was not a simple fix.
Who Is Anonymous Who leaked Twitch Data?
The Anonymous individual who has leaked Twitch TV’s data on the web has not been identified yet.
Even the governments take a very long time deploying the best of their investigators and detectives to find hackers.
The individual has not identified himself on the web yet however, he has been talking to the media and people on the internet using various mediums.
Much about Anonymous individual who has leaked the information on the web has not come to the surface yet. He could be an individual hacker or a group of hackers posing as one person.