Jan 06, 2022 12:30:00

40 people arrested for money laundering over 1 billion yen using Twitch

In October 2021, the

livestreaming platform Twitch was hacked and leaked over 120GB of data. From this data leak, it was revealed that money laundering was being done on Twitch, but I was newly involved in money laundering of 10 million dollars (about 1.16 billion yen) on Twitch. Forty people have been arrested. '

40 people arrested in connection to $ 10m Twitch money laundering scam --Dexerto
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/40-people-arrested-in-connection-to-10m-twitch-money-laundering-scam-1732995/

40 arrested in Twitch corruption probe in Turkey | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/investigations/40-arrested-in-twitch-corruption-probe-in-turkey

Due to the large-scale hacking of Twitch, various information such as the source code of the entire Twitch, the unique SDK used by Twitch, information on internal AWS services, unreleased Steam competitors developed by Amazon Game Studios, etc. It was a leak. Some experts have pointed out that Twitch's data leak is 'the biggest leak I've ever seen.'

The leaked data also includes 'information about money paid to creators after 2019', and how much does the Twitch creator earn from this? Has also been clarified. On the other hand, in Turkey, even though there are only 40 to 50 viewers a day, it is talked about that there are distributors who earn up to $ 1800 a day (about 210,000 yen), and from here on Twitch It was revealed that money laundering was taking place in.

The money laundering that was done on Twitch used the currency 'bits ' in the platform, and you can find out the details by reading the following article.

'Money laundering is being done on Twitch', revealed from the data leak incident --GIGAZINE

And on January 4, 2022, Turkey's Demi Loren News Agency (DHA) reported that '40 people involved in money laundering on Twitch were arrested.'

The 40 suspects arrested were those who cashed the bits used for money laundering and used them with their credit cards. According to DHA reports, some of the suspects arrested are minors, but it has not been revealed how many of them are minors.

In addition, DHA says that it is unknown what kind of crime will be charged if the arrested suspect is convicted. In addition to the 40 people arrested this time, about 150 people are suspected of being involved, including users who gave bits to the distributor, so it is still time to identify all the people involved in money laundering. May take.