Twitch was possibly hacked.

As some of you with twitch.tv accounts may already have been told, yesterday there had a security breach in which sensitive user information may have been accessed. The streaming site has made it a requirement for all users to change their passwords upon next login, removed any links accounts have with twitter and youtube, and expired all stream keys. More than 65 million people use twitch to view content each month, with more than a million broadcasters. The official statement from the company can be seen below:


Since then, Twitch has sent out emails to those whose accounts have been affected by the attack. GameReplays.Org got our hands on a copy thanks to DJ_Chill, whose account was affected.

We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your Twitch username and associated email address, your password (which was cryptographically protected), the last IP address you logged in from, and any of the following if you provided it to us: first and last name, phone number, address, and date of birth.

For your protection, we have expired your password and stream keys. In addition, if you had connected your account to Twitter or YouTube, we have terminated this connection.

You will be prompted to create a new password the next time you attempt to log into your Twitch account. If applicable, you will also need to re-connect your account to Twitter and YouTube, and re-authenticate through Facebook, once you change your password. We also recommend that you change your password at any other website where you use the same or a similar password.

On top of this, Gamesbeat has a different twitch support email which mentions that "limited" credit card information has also been compromised on some accounts.

Twitch is one of the biggest streaming services on the internet, having recently been bought over by Amazon for $970 million last year.