Twitch has been hacked!

If you have a Twitch.tv account, your password might have been compromised (if hackers have skills to decrypt them).

Please change your passwords if you have used the same ones.

Stay safe.


E-mail received:

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.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
The Twitch Team
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When I logged on to Twitch earlier, it automatically required me to change my password.

Stream keys and all other secure information has been reset as well, so it seems they have the situation under control.

Thanks for the notice. :laugh:

 

Having situation 'Under control' will not bring back leaked information, that's the least they can and HAVE to do.

 

Well it just so happens that by a stroke of luck that I deleted my twitch account yesterday.


Thanks for the info.

 

You're are welcome, Twitch does not say when their database was accessed, it could have been earlier, plus your information still could have been there.

 

Thanks for the warning, thankfully I use different passwords for nearly every website I make an account on.

 

Yea got the same email.

Its been ages I logged in to twitch... I hope the password wasnt the same :/

 

Good looking out!

 

Thanks for the warning.

Twitch emails go straight to my Spam folder.

 

Thanks man, saved me