Amazon’s Twitch Hack Shows Top Gamers Rake In Six-Figure Payouts
- Hacker says motive was to foster competition in game streaming
- Data leak allegedly details payments to streaming channels
Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch streaming app.
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An anonymous hacker attacked Amazon.com Inc.’s video game streaming platform Twitch and earlier today leaked a trove of critical data including Twitch’s source code and a spreadsheet detailing earnings for the platform’s top gamers.
Leaks on the social media platform 4Chan, popular among conspiracy theorists and gamers, claim to include the entirety of the platform’s Twitch.tv streaming history and an Amazon Game Studios product, still under development, designed to challenge Valve Corp.’s dominant Steam storefront. Bloomberg has reported previously on Amazon’s plans for a digital game store.