‘Urgent Pizza’: The Untold Story of the Largest Hack in Twitch’s History

‘Urgent Pizza’: The Untold Story of the Largest Hack in Twitch’s History

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkb7qg/urgent-pizza-untold-story-of-the-largest-twitch-hack-in-history

At the end of the day on a Friday in October 2014, just a few months after Amazon paid nearly $1 billion for the video game streaming website Twitch, an engineer stumbled upon what at the time was the platform’s first ever hack while doing tech support for a colleague who worked remotely.

"Oh fuck," the former Twitch engineer recalled saying. "But I remember thinking that there was so much 'I told you so' here."

‘Urgent Pizza’: The Untold Story of the Largest Hack in Twitch’s History

Oct 14, 2021, 4:57pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkb7qg/urgent-pizza-untold-story-of-the-largest-twitch-hack-in-history > At the end of the day on a Friday in October 2014, just a few months after Amazon paid nearly $1 billion for the video game streaming website Twitch, an engineer stumbled upon what at the time was the platform’s first ever hack while doing tech support for a colleague who worked remotely. > "Oh fuck," the former Twitch engineer recalled saying. "But I remember thinking that there was so much 'I told you so' here."