Twitch Trolled By “PogChamp” Face Of Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos

Just days after Twitch suffered a giant security breach more than 125 GB data leak, the face of Amazon founder and president Jeff Bezos was seen trolling multiple pages of the streaming platform’s game directory. How it got there, or why, remains a mystery.

As the first reported by The edge, users began to notice the rogue image of one of the richest people in the world disfiguring various corners of Twitch in the early hours of Friday morning. Affected pages include directory listings for Grand Theft Auto V, Dota 2, Hit, Minecraft, and Mountain peak Captions, among others. Many images have since been deleted, but as of Friday afternoon, the Gta vv the page still included Bezos’ face, although it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it already:

The image in question is that of Bezos, famous for turning a small online book-selling startup into an evil mega-corporation, making a “PogChamp” emote face. The same photo appeared in the original 4chan post by those who claimed to have hacked Twitch in part because it was a “toxic sump”. Twitch has since called the cyber intrusion the work of a “malicious third party“and continues to investigate the extent of the damage. The contents of the initial data dump reportedly included Twitch source code, information about a game client rivaling Valve’s Steam storefront, and personal income records for The best paid Twitch streamers.

Amazon originally bought Twitch for $ 970 million in an all-cash deal back in 2014. Twitch has since become the streaming platform of choice for gamers, Dungeons & Dragons fans, and even politicians. Despite being owned by a company estimated to be worth over $ 1,000 billion, Twitch has been criticized like many social media platforms for not moderating enough and protecting content creators who generate its profits against harassment.

September 1 thousands of streamers boycotted Twitch for a day on its inability to tackle hate raids and other attacks primarily targeting marginalized content creators. Meanwhile, some of the biggest streamers have jumped on YouTube and Facebook. The personal income data leak of top streamers as a result of the hack also revived conversations around disparities on the platform between top performers and everyone else, as well as concerns about data privacy.

I’m not sure seeing Bezos’ face appearing inconspicuously all over the site will help.