Amazon-owned gaming platform, Twitch, has confirmed the massive data breach that cracked its website wide open and leaked the contents in a 125GB torrent link that was put online for everyone to download.
We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us.— Twitch (@Twitch) October 6, 2021
As The Verge reported, the leak has been labelled as "Part One," which suggests that there is more information to come. So far, the leak doesn't seem to include passwords or addresses of Twitch users but it won't hurt to change your passwords and enable 2 factor authentication, if you haven't.
Twitch says that it is investigating the leak to find out the extent of the breach. It is also sending out emails to some users to change passwords.
The leak comes after weeks of protest by content creators that have called for the company to improve its service. There was even a protest by the creators who took a day off to protest the company's lack of action against hate raids.
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