 Poker is getting more and more popular on Twitch.TV, to the point where it got its own dedicated channel and the most popular Twitch.TV poker streamer, Jason Somerville, got signed as a Team PokerStars Pro. A lot of poker players also origin from e-sports market or still look up to e-sport streamers, having active accounts on Twitch.tv, so this information is critical, especially due to latest PokerStars hackings: Twitch.TV was breached by hackers and a lot of player information has been leaked.
The Wall Street Journal contacted Twitch for further details, but there was no additional comment given. However, we would still advise you (yet again) to change any passwords that you shared with the site.
Email sent out by Twitch.tv in regards of the situation:
"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, 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"
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