As such, whether Twitch runs its own server stack or uses Amazon's rack space isn't clear.
Interestingly, NBC's tech investigations reporter Olivia Solon says that all of Amazon's warehouse systems were hit by a network disruption last night, although the company won't confirm if this event was connected to the Twitch hack.Īmazon warehouse workers across the US were unable to work for at least two hours last night because their internal software crashed and none of their scanners would work.Īll Amazon will say is that it was a "network disruption that was quickly resolved."Īmazon's 2014 acquisition of Twitch maintained that the entity would operate "independently" from Amazon. During such raids, vulgar and hateful speech is dumped into the site's prominent chat feeds by users and bots.
Portions of the leaked archive are vast and contain large ZIPs, and it may be days before the complete extent of the breach is understood:įurther Reading Twitch leak suggests major response to streaming site’s “hate mob” issuesThe hack puts more bad news on Twitch's plate and follows a recent and long-awaited public response to hate raid issues. The dump also reportedly contains Unity source code for a game called " Vapeworld."
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The gross payouts of the top 100 highest-paid Twitch streamers from August 2019 until October 2021: /3Lj9pb2aBl- KnowSomething October 6, 2021Īn anonymous Twitch source confirmed to Video Games Chronicle that the leaked data, including Twitch's source code, is legitimate.