Amazon's Twitch hit by data breach

Bengaluru

AMAZON.COM Inc's live streaming e-sports platform Twitch on Wednesday blamed "an error" in server configuration change for a data breach and said it was still assessing the impact.

An anonymous hacker claimed to have leaked Twitch data, including information related to the company's source code, clients and unreleased games, according to Video Games Chronicle, which first reported the news.

Twitch said there was no indication login credentials of users have been exposed. The company added it does not store full credit card details.

The Twitch hacker's motive was to "foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space", according to the Video Games Chronicle report https: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked.

About 125 GB of data was leaked, including information on Twitch's highest paid video game streamers since 2019, such as a US$9.6 million payout to the voice actors of popular game Dungeons & Dragons and US$8.4 million to Canadian streamer xQcOW, the report said. REUTERS