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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | In Lorenzo, last week, you went down a Twitch-shaped rabbit hole of reporting, and it all started with a recent leak. |
0:08.9 | Can you hit me with some of the very, very basic facts of kind of what happened that got you started on all this? |
0:15.8 | Yeah, so a couple of weeks ago, we reported that Twitch had been hacked and that someone posted on the |
0:24.1 | internet on 4chan, particularly hundreds of gigabytes of internal data, including source code, |
0:31.6 | financial data of streamers, like their earnings and things like that. And once I wrote that story, I started hearing from |
0:41.3 | former Twitch employees that essentially told me, wow, it's, you know, it's surprising that |
0:46.6 | happened again, you know, the hack in 2015, and that was really bad. The hack in 2015 is, is public. |
0:53.9 | You know, it was already reported at the time, |
0:56.2 | but all we knew before our story was that Twitch had to reset some passwords because of a |
1:03.0 | breach and life went on, sort of like, you know, pretty simply. What we, by speaking to this former which employees, however, we discovered that the hack was |
1:16.6 | much worse than Twitch ever talked about. |
1:20.6 | First of all, it didn't happen in 2015. |
1:23.6 | It was discovered in 2014 and the employees I spoke with are not even sure that's when |
1:29.6 | actually it started the company didn't really have good logs so it wasn't really confident |
1:36.3 | of when when the hackers got in and you know the breach was bad the hackers got a hold of everyone's passwords, internal databases, source code, just like in the latest incident. |
1:52.2 | And the company, for months, was trying to recover. |
1:57.9 | All right. |
1:58.6 | Well, this is cyber, and this is the story of urgent pizza. |
2:09.5 | Tad, it's got the code. It's going to launch. |
2:14.2 | It's a unique system. I know this. |
2:18.6 | It's how all the files of the whole park. |
2:20.8 | It tells her everything. |
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