A Brief History of Twitch Getting Hacked

<p>On October 6, a massive leak of Twitch data&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvnjk/twitch-hack-of-135-gb-of-data-includes-how-much-its-biggest-streamers-make" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">revealed</a>&nbsp;how much cash its biggest streamers made. The leak isn’t the first time Twitch’s security has been called into question and as the fallout from the leak spiraled, Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai went looking for an older story, the story of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkb7qg/urgent-pizza-untold-story-of-the-largest-twitch-hack-in-history" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Urgent Pizza</a>. This week on Cyber, Lorenzo tells us the story of the biggest hack in Twitch history. In 2014 unskilled hackers walked right into Twitch’s code and made off with everything. It was right after Amazon had paid nearly $1 billion for the company. Later, Lorenzo breaks down everything Activision is doing to prevent&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xjqa/cheat-maker-is-so-far-not-afraid-of-call-of-dutys-new-kernel-level-anti-cheat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cheating in&nbsp;<em>Call of Duty</em></a>.</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>