We can confirm a breach has taken place.
Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this.
We will update the community as soon as additional information is available.
Thank you for bearing with us.
Twitch (@Twitch)October 6, 2021
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Many users will now be alarmed by account security risks.
With a massive data leak, this message is now seriously challenged.
- The leak will likely intensify the draw of other streaming platforms.
One short-lived competitor to Twitch, Mixer,closed down last year.
Mixer had secured a number ofsuperstar streamersbut failed to create the sort of community found on Twitch.
- The economy of Twitch is based on viewersgiving money to streamers.
These are mostly donations (one-off payments) or subscriptions (monthly payments).
As such, most streamers make much of their money via many small payments fromdedicated fans.
On a large enough scale, the combined economic impacts could be significant.
New information in the leak might give Valve a significant advantage in countering Twitchs offering before it even launches.
Either way, this will impact games distribution and consumption in years to come.
Yet, it was seemingly taken completely by surprise with this leak.
What went wrong in Amazon or Twitchs multi-billion dollar systems to allow such an incident?
Is all lost?
Despite all of the above, this is far from a knock-out blow for Twitch.
The platform dominates the live streaming space in most countries and has already seen off competitors.
