The streaming platform Twitch, along with its users, has found itself a victim of an alleged dark web data leak. A new advertisement has appeared on a well-known hacker forum, claiming that a threat actor has stolen information on about 40,000 Twitch users.
At any given moment, more than 2 million viewers are watching streams on Twitch. Even the remote possibility of a data leak or breach could therefore affect a large number of people.
Cybernews researchers investigated the claims, and here is what was found:
- The attacker claims to have stolen usernames, URLs, emails, legal names, followers’ numbers, and the status of account verification
- The data appears scraped, not taken from a direct Twitch breach.
- Some emails were not public, so the attacker may have abused Twitch’s API.
- Non-public emails in the sample suggest that the attacker may have exploited Twitch’s API.
“From what I see, this indeed looks like a data scrape, not a breach,” one of our researchers said. It is likely that the attacker compiled the dataset through other means, like collecting information from public streamers’ profiles.
For more information, read the article here:
https://cybernews.com/security/twitch-data-leak-claim-40000-streamers
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Hacker claims database of 40,000 Twitch streamers is up for sale
The streaming platform Twitch, along with its users, has found itself a victim of an alleged dark web data leak. A new advertisement has appeared on a well-known hacker forum, claiming that a threat actor has stolen information on about 40,000 Twitch users.
At any given moment, more than 2 million viewers are watching streams on Twitch. Even the remote possibility of a data leak or breach could therefore affect a large number of people.
Cybernews researchers investigated the claims, and here is what was found:
“From what I see, this indeed looks like a data scrape, not a breach,” one of our researchers said. It is likely that the attacker compiled the dataset through other means, like collecting information from public streamers’ profiles.
For more information, read the article here:
https://cybernews.com/security/twitch-data-leak-claim-40000-streamers
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