Twitch advises users to change passwords after potential hack Asylum rwxr-xr-x 0 9:29 PM

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Gaming video broadcaster Twitch recently announced that the site could have potentially been hacked and all users should set new passwords for their accounts on the website.



The company has given out an official statement on the matter saying that hackers could have gained access to personal account information of its users. The website has not given out any information as to how hackers accessed the user information.



Not taking any chances, Twitch has expires the passwords of all its user accounts and also accounts linked from Youtube and Twitter. The company has gone a step further and also asked users to change their similar passwords on other websites.



Twitch is also contacting users personally via email, who they think might have been directly impacted because of the potential breach. In the email (obtained from Twitter user Chris Seymour) Twitch has further stated the information of the affected users at risk.



The email read, '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, limited credit card information (card type, truncated card number and expiration date), and any of the following if you provided it to us: first and last name, phone number, address, and date of birth.'

Twitch has declined to comment publicly what personal information of its users might be at risk.

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