Video game platform Twitch is hacked

The hack was given the title "Part One", which suggests that others may follow.

Twitch has about 140 million visitors every month

Video game streaming platform Twitch admitted Wednesday that it had been hacked, but it has yet to say the extent of the damage.

The Amazon service group posted a tweet saying, “We can confirm that there has been a breach. Our teams are working quickly” to address it. "We will inform the group of players as soon as we have more information," she added.

The platform, which is still operating normally, was forced to comment on the hack as rumors spread that large amounts of leaked data were circulating online.

And the specialized website, The Verge, reported that the hacking process was given the title “Part One”, which suggests that others may follow.

Searches for how to unregister in Twitch have increased eightfold on Google, according to analysts from the marketing company InReach.

"Users are naturally inclined to protect themselves and their data in the event of a similar hack on a platform of this importance that has such a global reach," a company spokesperson explained.

Specialized press articles quoted the anonymous user who circulated the data yield on the Internet as saying that he wanted to encourage competition in the video broadcasting industry, but also because he viewed the Twitch community as a "disgusting and poisonous cesspool."

The streaming service is experiencing a wave of racist harassment against non-whites and the LGBT community, with so-called "hate raids" against content creators belonging to these two categories.

These players recently posted slogans on Twitter and carried out a "strike" day to urge Twitch to better protect them from these attacks. The company has taken measures but is struggling to stop this phenomenon.

The number of visitors to "Twitch" is about 140 million each month, according to the company "Backlinco", which specializes in optimizing Internet search engines.