A user offers since Wednesday to download documents that he says he stole from the site.
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A user released, Wednesday, October 6, a series of documents on the 4Chan discussion forum, asserting having obtained many internal files, as well as the source code of the Twitch live video broadcast platform. The company confirmed in a tweet A leak had taken place, while saying “working in the emergency to understand the extent” of the situation.
The list of proposed downloads (including Le Monde could not verify authenticity) shows that published documents correspond for the vast majority to tools and the code used to manage the site infrastructure, Its security, the display of advertisements, the analysis of visitor data, etc. A list corroborated by the specialized media The Record .
Streaming business figures
In total, it is 128 gigabytes of data that have been posted online, who have published them claimed that they came from online deposits to share computer code. This same person says they hacked these files in a retaliation way, because “the Community [of Twitch] is a toxic cloak”, a reference to the moderation problems whose site is regularly accused. Other stolen documents have not been published yet, continues the user.
These documents contain a list of business figures released by the most followed creators of the platform, where some Internet users are playing video games, making music, or simply to speak , sometimes in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators. Several Creators have confirmed the authenticity of this list and numbers unveiled, including Zerator , the One of the largest French streamers.