Video Game Streaming Giant Sues Hackers
By Jack Igoe, Michigan Law 3L
On May 25, 2019, a group of individuals launched a coordinated digital attack on Twitch Interactive Inc., Amazon’s newly-acquired video game streaming giant. According to a legal complaint filed by Twitch, the hackers flooded Twitch’s platform with prohibited content including “a video of the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attack, hard core pornography, copyrighted movies and television shows, and racist and misogynistic videos.” Hackers evaded Twitch