Twitch: No credentials or card numbers exposed in data breach

From bleepingcomputer.com

Twitch: No credentials or card numbers exposed in data breach

Twitch says that no login credentials and credit card numbers belonging to users or streamers were exposed following yesterday’s massive data leak.

The company added that the attackers could gain access to the stolen data due to a faulty Twitch server configuration change.

“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,” Twitch said.

“At this time, we have no indication that login credentials have been exposed. Additionally, full credit card numbers are not stored by Twitch, so full credit card numbers were not exposed.”

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