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Possible Twitch.tv Security Breach
New submitter FalleStar writes: Today, the world's largest video game livestreaming website, Twitch.tv, posted the following blog entry: "We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information. For your protection, we have expired passwords and stream keys and have disconnected accounts from Twitter and YouTube. As a result, you will be prompted to create a new password the next time you attempt to log into your Twitch account. We also recommend that you change your password at any website where you use the same or a similar password." The full details of the breach have yet to be released. Back in a 2013 blog post, Twitch reported that one of their CDNs had mistakenly exposed user account information, and they mentioned that their user passwords are hashed, but did not indicate whether or not they are salted. In addition to the blog post, Twitch users are being notified of the intrusion by email. According to one such email, compromised data may include the last IP address a user logged in from, as well as some credit card information — but not full card numbers, since Twitch doesn't store those.
You mad bros? That's what you get for showing off.
Pay to watch games? And I thought actual gamers were bad.
Get a life, losers.
They're pulling some serious Facebook shenanigans here.
And now Google Play store wants credit card numbers for free apps. They can forget about it.
Changing my password? Forget it. I putting back the same one I used. Not like my twitch account has anything important related to it, just made it to get notifications from certain streamers.
This may affect the way we think about the people who have been swatted while using Twitch. Maybe they didn't even give away their personal information, but had it extracted at another time, behind their backs, and held until someone felt like causing them the most possible trouble.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Also: the fact that you jump to the conclusion that anyone who watches streams is automatically an overweight, sexist, "stereotypical" nerd and tying in 'Gamergate' just makes you look like a TROLL.
And they aarrre... who? I don't see them on the list.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
It sure sounds like it's a "possible" breach. I mean actually, it was a breach. Does the submitter work for them or something?
Om, nomnomnom...
I received the full email warning about the breach from Twitch. Odd thing is I had never heard of Twitch.TV and I don't do video gaming. Wondering why I received the email. Could this be a larger Amazon security issue?
That hides exactly "0" as 99% of those here browse below the bs "moderation system" 0 level!
We all see -1 posts (best ones usually).
This place is bullshit in that capacity. It lets little pricks like YOU feel 'superior'. NewsFlash - you're not. Far from it. You're vastly inferior worms & wannabes from what I've seen!
In fact, I'll say this right now - I've only met a small handful of ANYONE HERE posting that impresses me on a computing technical level to be quite honest over a decade long timeframe.
I.E.-> Let's talk MORE on the bullshit "moderation system" (more like suppression system of ideas that don't fit the herd mind of sockpuppets here furthering their own bullshit agendas, which doesn't work! How come Open SORES is still DEAD LAST on PC's & Servers combined vs. MS then I ask you, as a SINGLE example thereof):
Why doesn't the ownership here allow you to see how up or down modded you?
Oh, they'll spout their BULLSHIT saying "It would start flame wars" well, dimwits? YOU HAVE THEM ANYHOW... you like them no matter what, as it gets more views/hits (not from me you don't - & most here I imagine - we cut off your trackers via hosts & firewalls and stall javascript - fuck your "registered luser" accounts that make you trackable sheep too).
Man: ALL That above?
Yes folks - It tells you about THEIR character (rather the original weasels who started the site actually, as they designed it) - they're weaselly little NERDS who have had to "hide" their entire lives like worms, acting like women do!
(Yes people, your GHOST shows thru when you write wares onto these machines, & their spirits suck imo - the system here proves it for me - it allows weasels like YOU to harass others & more, prick).
E.G.-> Moderation here is MASSIVELY ABUSED (& the ironically droll part is all the "freedome of speech" & speech shouldn't be surpressed utter BULLSHIT I hear from a lot of you overly liberal bullshitters - YOU'RE THE BIGGEST ABUSERS OF IT & you are PROOF, prick!)
I.E.-> Anyone can cheat using diff. emails and multilple sockpuppets (for those of you worms farming karma to play your whimp game).
APK
P.S.=> Your kind is simply the LOWEST of the LOW, which is WHY guys like me beat the fuck out of you in school, and fucked your girlfriend in front of you MAKING YOU WATCH, squirming like the worm your kind is in this life... apk