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Amazon’s Twitch hit by data breach By Reuters

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: An twitch sign in screen can be seen in the office of Twitch Inc. (a social video and gaming platform owned by Amazon), San Francisco, California. March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc’s Twitch live streaming esports platform Twitch stated Wednesday that it had been affected by a data breach. It did not provide further information.

Video Games Chronicle first reported that an anonymous hacker had leaked Twitch data. This included information about the client code and the unreleased titles.

Twitch confirmed that there was a breach, and it stated its teams are “working with urgency to determine the extent of the problem.”

The company declined to comment further and said https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1445770441176469512 it would “update the community as soon as additional information is available”. Amazon (NASDAQ) didn’t immediately reply to our request for comment.

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

Twitch leak is real. Includes significant amount of personal data,” cyber security expert Kevin Beaumont tweeted https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1445707816426115075?s=21.

Twitch has gained popularity among video gamers and musicians. They allow them to interact live with others while stream content via Twitch.

The platform, which was boycotted earlier this year by users for not doing enough to block harassment, previously made a move to ban users https://reut.rs/3mnORZW for offenses such as hate-group membership and credible threats of mass violence.

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