{"id":372217,"date":"2025-10-26T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:22:50","slug":"twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch Confirms Source Code, Payment Numbers, User Information, And More Has Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><span><span>Twitch has responded to reports that a massive data leak has occurred, confirming that such a leak did, in fact, happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VideoGamesChronicle<\/a><\/em> first reported that an anonymous hacker posted a 125GB link to 4chan earlier today filled with user information, payout amounts, source code, proprietary services, and more. The publication verified that those files posted on 4chan were downloadable, and it received word from an \u201canonymous company\u201d that the files were legit. Still, without official word from Twitch, it wasn\u2019t confirmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitch (@Twitch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitch\/status\/1445770441176469512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>Now, Twitch has confirmed that the leak is real, which means the personal data of millions is out there available for download. According to <em>VGC<\/em>, all of Twitch\u2019s source code was leaked, including comment history \u201cgoing back to its early beginnings.\u201d Furthermore, streamer payout numbers from 2019 were leaked, as were Twitch\u2019s own internal security tools, proprietary services, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Basically, all of Twitch has been leaked. If you\u2019re reading this and have a Twitch account, now would be a great time to change your password and enable two-factor authorization.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>At the time of this writing, Twitch has only made that one tweet in response to this leak, although it does say that it will update the community when\u00a0more information is made available. According to<em> VGC<\/em>, the leaker stated that this 125GB leak is the first part of more content they have planned to leak, although they didn\u2019t say what the additional content is and when it might be released.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VGC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitch\/status\/1445770441176469512?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/06\/twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch has responded to reports that a massive data leak has occurred, confirming that such a leak did, in fact, happen.\u00a0 VideoGamesChronicle first reported that an anonymous hacker posted a 125GB link to 4chan earlier today filled with user information, payout amounts, source code, proprietary services, and more. The publication verified that those files posted on 4chan were downloadable, and it received word from an \u201canonymous company\u201d that the files were legit. Still, without official word from Twitch, it wasn\u2019t confirmed.\u00a0 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. \u2014 Twitch (@Twitch) October 6, 2021&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/twitch-confirms-source-code-payment-numbers-user-information-and-more-has-leaked\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitch Confirms Source Code, Payment Numbers, User Information, And More Has Leaked | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Twitch has responded to reports that a massive data leak has occurred, 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