Twitch Hack Targets League of Legends Streamers, Moderators

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An apparent hack on several Twitch accounts affected popular League of Legends streamers recently with stream titles being altered and bans going into effect.

One of the streamers in question was Tyler1, the controversial, now reformed League of Legends streamer that was recently unbanned by Riot Games and is free to play League publicly once again. Tyler1 broke records on his first day back by amassing a ridiculous number of viewers eager to see his return to the public eye, so for someone were looking to hack a streamer’s account, Tyler1 made for a perfect target.

As reported by Polygon, the streamer had the name of his stream changed to something that certainly violated the terms and conditions that Twitch puts on its streamers. You can see the new name of the stream title here, but be aware that it’s quite vulgar and was clearly designed to be as shocking and controversial as possible.

After the name of the stream was changed and viewers began taking notice and discussing it, one of the moderators of Tyler1’s subreddit, Sloppymayor, was thought to have changed the title, though some believed that the moderator had been hacked. The moderator responded and said that a hack had most definitely happened and added that the hack had affected other streamers such as IWillDominate as well.

“Same with IWD, I was hacked,” Sloppymayor said. “This is all getting settled right now.”

Sloppymayor’s account was suspended because of the hack and the abrasive stream title, but the moderator added that they were working to get two-factor authentication for all of the mods and would be able to finalize that improvement once the accounts were unbanned by Twitch. There are hopes that Twitch will life the ban seeing how it was a result of a hack, but there’s no word on whether that’s happened or not. Tyler1 is not in danger of being banned as a result of the hack, however, according to Sloppymayor.

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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/01/17/twitch-hack-league-of-legends-tyler1/

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TOXICPosted:

Theres always someone to spoil the fun.

TomPosted:

ImSoFarAway Some people got nothing better to do with their time...


its probably just the humor and hate they have towards those streamers. Personally if I was a hacker, id have quite the few id be hacking.

TomPosted:

hopefully they target all these hoes that are showing they're cleavage and stuff for the money.

DragonPosted:

Lol, people cannot let people just have their own fun.

junoPosted:

This is bad news for the streamers

GroguPosted:

I don't use twitch but RIP LoL streamers

djPosted:

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Hollywood_Undead Tyler1 deserved to be hacked. toxic af


Tyler1 is reformed. Nobody deserved to be hacked.


Noone else's fault besides twitch security. I mean this was gonna happen eventually with twitch stream moderators lol kinda a fail.

TTGPosted:

Some people got nothing better to do with their time...

MobPosted:

Tyler1 can be toxic but i dont think he means to be it just happens lol

MikePosted:

This can't be good they probably should update security.