From Elliot Padfield:
Looks like a big leak of data from #twitch being distributed. Supposedly contains all source code for @Twitch website amongst a variety of other tools.
Earning/revenue data for partnered streamers since 2019 too. #twitchleak pic.twitter.com/DGP3211LIo— Elliot Padfield (@ElliotPadfield) October 6, 2021
If you’ve got a Twitch account, change the password.
If you log in with the same login/email that you use to log in to other sites and the same password, stop that. Get a password manager. But, in the short term, change those passwords too.Report
Sigh. “A disgusting toxic cesspool”. I’ve only ever looked at one streamer, and nope. Yeah, of course there are some. Life is full of disgusting toxic behavior. So there has to be. Which makes it easy to justify one’s own extreme, illegal, and anti-social behavior. Because “they did it first!” or something.
That’s basically an evil speech of evil.Report
I have a twitch account and streamed to an audience of two (both well-known to me) back during the Diablo II beta.
I don’t really watch Twitch (though have been tempted by a handful of the Live D&D sessions on there to mine for a handful of ideas for Saturday nights… but, dang…).
My problem with Twitch is that I’d rather play Diablo II than watch someone else play it and I can’t imagine someone who would rather watch someone play than play something themselves.
Like, maybe I could see watching the finals of the Starcraft II World Championship or something like that but… I just don’t see the appeal.
Maybe it’s the toxicity that is the draw. (If that’s the case, it explains why they haven’t done more to tamp it down.)Report
There is a certain irony to someone posting on 4chan and complaining that another site is toxic.Report