Twitch streamers lose chat control after channel extension is hijacked by hackers

Practically all streamers use extensions on Twitch nowadays, but an incident reminded them bots developed by third parties can cause serious security issues.

On Sept. 10, the Pando Twitch extension was removed from the platform due to an exploit found by hackers. They took control of the chat of some streamers to post profanity or spam links.

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