On the account of streamer NoWay on Twitch, someone held a stream while the channel owner was deep asleep. This is unsettling – both for NoWay and the community.
What happened? The popular Twitch streamer NoWay, known primarily for his content about League of Legends, addressed his community on x.com with a post of a different kind.
This is not about a round of his favorite game, but something much more serious. NoWay writes: “There you are sleeping peacefully and someone just starts a high-quality mobile stream on my Twitch account.”
The streamer shares an image showing the interface of an Android device:
So an unknown person simply started a stream without NoWay’s knowledge, who was asleep in the meantime. Streamer TrilluXe experienced something similar some time ago. This is understandably a spooky thought. NoWay himself writes in the comments: “So scary, seriously. How did he get in there?”
A question that also occupies the community.
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What do the users think? Under the post, comments from users gather who think about how it was possible for an unknown person to gain access to NoWay’s account.
User Tengu writes: “Could it not somehow have been a livestream phone? In the stream, I believe it was seen that it was at 4%. Maybe there was still some connection and when it had enough battery and turned on, it got activated?”
Orion wonders: “Used public Wi-Fi somewhere on the go? Your passwords found in some data breaches? For the latter, there are plenty of services online that check this for you. Just change the data first, I hope that’s enough to sort it out.”
NoWay responds that the unknown person did not have the password, but “only” the stream key. This is a key for authorization that clearly identifies a stream and allows you to go live.
Normally, the key would always be reset, NoWay continues. Then user Bengeljo asks if the streamer might have forgotten to properly delete the key, for example on a foreign PC where he was logged in. However, NoWay always streams via his own devices, even when he is on the go.
Another user named Bjonik, on the other hand, suspects hacked Twitch extensions behind the incident. He recommends disconnecting all linked accounts. But what really lay behind this “takeover” remains a mystery.
NoWay seems to have been lucky in this case that no greater mischief was done with his account. The incident once again shows how leak-prone some so-called secure systems can be. What is your opinion on this? Feel free to share it in the comments. Normally, NoWay provides news about LoL: Twitch streamer NoWay reaches the highest rank of LoL in 10 regions, but he fears the next one
