Amazon-owned Twitch reportedly breached by hackers who leaked everything from creator payouts to an unannounced Amazon digital game store

• Amazon's Twitch has been hacked, resulting in a major data breach.
• The source code for Twitch and creator earnings numbers were reportedly included in the hack.
• It's unclear whether user data was leaked, but changing your Twitch password may be a good idea.

Twitch, Amazon's massively popular video-game-streaming service, has been hacked - resulting in a major data leak, Video Games Chronicle reported Wednesday.

Contained within the leak is everything from Twitch's original source code to several years of payout information on the service's most popular streamers, Video Games Chronicle reported.

A torrent of a 125-gigabyte file of data pulled from the hack is circulating on the anonymous message board 4chan.

The people claiming responsibility for the breach said in a 4chan post that the point of the hack was to "foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space" because Twitch's community is "a disgusting toxic cesspool."

They also detailed the main contents of the hack: the source code for Twitch going back years, an unannounced digital game storefront meant to rival heavyweights like Steam, and years of financial records of Twitch streamers (in addition to the software development kits for various Twitch apps and adjacent software).

It's unclear if user data was breached, but it wouldn't hurt to change your Twitch password and, if you don't already have it set up, activate two-factor authentication.

Twitch confirmed the data breach in a statement on Twitter.

"We can confirm a breach has taken place," the statement said. "Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us."

Representatives for Twitch didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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