
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.
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