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A malicious browser extension named "Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot" has leaked OAuth tokens from nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers. The extension, available on Chrome and Firefox, forwards user tokens in cleartext via a network redirect for every channel watched, except a hardcoded list of 10 Russian streamers. The developer has released an update to fix the issue.
A 15.5 GB file containing 7.3 million Chess.com user records was posted for free on data-leak forums. Technical analysis confirms the data is genuine but indicates large-scale scraping, not a server breach. The dataset includes emails, usernames, ratings, and internal Google Ad Manager audience tags, but no passwords or payment data. Evidence points to abuse of the platform's find-friends feature at a scale nine times larger than a 2023 incident.
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