Twitch struggles with hackers and hate raid bots

Twitch's leak of confidential data comes as another blow to its cyber defences, which have been struggling to address "hate raids" against streamers from marginalised groups. — AFP

Twitch, Amazon's popular live video streaming platform, on Thursday said hackers took advantage of a mistake in a server configuration tweak to steal data.

A massive trove of confidential Twitch data dumped on the internet included records showing top game play streamers took in millions of dollars during the past year.