Twitch points to “malicious third party” for recent site hack

Twitch offered a brief update on their initial findings regarding this week’s hack that saw more than 120GB of data, code, developer tools, and more leaked from the site and uploaded onto public domains. At this point, Twitch says that an external third party is responsible for the hack, having capitalized on a server configuration exploit.

Here’s what they said in a brief statement: “We have learned that some data was exposed to the internet due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party. Our teams are working with urgency to investigate the incident. As the investigation is ongoing, we are still in the process of understanding the impact in detail. We understand that this situation raises concerns, and we want to address some of those here while our investigation continues.”

Twitch states that there is no indication that login details nor any payment information of its users have been accessed. They are continuing the investigation into the security breach and they will keep us updated. We can only keep our fingers crossed!