Streaming Service Twitch Compromised, Change Your Passwords

If you have a streaming account with Twitch and it shared a password with anything, you may want to change it!

This is the exact email we had:

QuoteWe 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, 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. While we store passwords in a cryptographically protected form, we believe it’s possible that your password could have been captured in clear text by malicious code when you logged into our site on March 3rd.

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

This is a personal email some are getting, but it could have affected more.

You can also see their official blog post on it here.

I'm not entirely sure what takes 3 weeks to notify people about such a big security issue, so I'm left rather unamused by this.

To add annoyance to it, it was sent from their "no reply" email, and no contact information is left in the email. So, if you have any concerns you then have to go to their site, and hunt for their support emails.

Remember folks, never share passwords between anything. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.