Hackers managed to deface Twitch for a few hours this Friday morning, replacing a series of game backgrounds with photos of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Users have reported seeing images of Bezos in listings for GTA V, Dota 2, Smite, Minecraft, Apex Legends and many more on Amazon’s proprietary service.
It’s still unclear how the background images were altered or whether this latest incident was helped by a major security breach at Twitch earlier this week. Hackers were able to exploit a server misconfiguration and steal hundreds of gigabytes of information. Twitch is still investigating the breach, and so far, a large amount of information regarding the site’s source code, unreleased projects and even how much mainstream streamers earn has all been stolen, with hackers having all that information stored.
At least one former Twitch employee has warned that attackers can now see shortcuts and APIs to Amazon’s internal services thanks to this attack. It’s entirely possible that the attack revealed some code that allowed people to easily change the background images on Twitch, or that this was simply a case of cache poisoning.
More Twitch shenanigans are afoot. All game directory header pictures on the Web version of Twitch are now showing a closeup picture of Jeff Bezos. It’s been like this for the last 2 hours. pic.twitter.com/LcKP9jGMCC
– AnEternalEnigma (@AnEternalEnigma) October 8, 2021
Twitch relies on different methods to cache images, and they can have problems. Anyway, Twitch is not really having a good week considering the problems that have surfaced this week.
Reddit Users noticed the defaced images around 5:00 am ET this morning, with several images showing Bezos’ face as a banner behind the games listed in the Twitch directory. Several people have tried to contact Twitch about this incident, but the company has not responded to any questions so far.
Source: Digitaltrends
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