TORONTO – Amazon-owned gaming site Twitch is forcing users to change their login credentials following a possible hack.
The live-stream gaming network revealed late Monday there may have been “unauthorized access” to some Twitch user accounts.
“For your protection, we have expired passwords and stream keys and have disconnected accounts from Twitter and YouTube. As a result, you will be prompted to create a new password the next time you attempt to log into your Twitch account,” read a blog posted to the company’s website.
Users should also change the password to any other accounts that used the same password as their Twitch account.
Amazon bought Twitch in August 2014 $970 million. Tech giant Google was also in bids to buy the company.
Tips for creating secure passwords
If you have been affected by the Twitch breach, you may want to consider setting a stronger password.
Stay away from easy-to-guess passwords like “1,2,3,4″ or “Password” and easy to guess identifiers like your dog’s name.
Passwords that use up to ten upper- and lower-case letters mixed with numbers are proven to be more secure – despite being hard to remember.
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One tip is to construct a password from a sentence, mix in a few upper case letters and a number – for example, “There is no place like home,” would become “tiNOplh62.”
Numbers included in a password should never be something easy to guess based on the user. That means your age, the current year, or your address are not good choices. Similarly, the longer the password the better.
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