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Well, it was a very bad, no good, week for Twitch. The Amazon-owned streaming service suffered a devastating hack, with Twitch source code, streamer payouts, internal security tools, and more all dumped on 4chan. It’s about as thorough a data dump as you’ll see. Among the many repercussions: Twitch streamers experienced sudden, forced pay transparency, which quickly became a meme on social media and Twitch itself.

Twitch wasn’t the only unlucky tech titan this week. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all got knocked out of service for several hours on Monday. No, it wasn’t hackers. Instead, Facebook accidentally withdrew its BGP route, effectively making it impossible for the rest of the internet to find it. Not only that, but it knocked Facebook’s own networks off the internet’s maps, meaning its engineers couldn’t fix the problem remotely. A real mess! The company experienced down time Friday afternoon as well, but not nearly as extensive an outage.

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A simple bug leaves AirTag users potentially vulnerable. And a judge found that the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare isn’t responsible for copyright-infringing sites that use its services.

And there’s more! Each week we round up all the security news WIRED didn’t cover in depth. Click on the headlines to read the full stories, and stay safe out there.

Everything’s fine now, it’s resolved; the Navy has its Facebook page back. But sometime Sunday night, someone managed to break into the account of the USS Kidd, a US Navy destroyer, and used that access to, well, stream the real-time strategy game Age of Empires. A Navy spokesperson confirmed to the military-focused news site Task & Purpose on Wednesday that someone gained “unauthorized access” to the Facebook page.

The streams were accompanied by brief messages like “hi guys” and “play game” and “ffffffffffff.” The likeliest culprit seems to be a family member of someone who has the keys to the USS Kidd’s social media account.

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Jeremy Fleming, the U.K.’s director of government electronic surveillance agency GCHQ, pointed to China on Friday as a major threat to internet securities with their “potential to control the global operating system” due to its “size and technological weight,” according to the Associated Press.

China’s Foreign Ministry fired back during a Friday press conference when spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that the remarks are “groundless and make no sense at all.”

“Western countries, such as the U.K. and U.S., are actually the true empires of hacking and tapping,” Zhao said.

Meanwhile, Fleming said China has a “competing vision for the future of cyberspace,” and added that there is a potential for China to use their authority to dominate technology markets, AP reported.

“I’d like to stress that given the virtual nature of cyberspace and the fact that there are all kinds of online actors who are difficult to trace, it’s importance to have enough evidence when investigating and identifying cyber-related incidents,” Zhao added. “Groundless speculations should be avoided.”

For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian takes a question at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020.
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Western countries risk losing control of technologies that are key to internet security and economic prosperity to nations like China and Russia if they don’t act to deal with the threat, one of the U.K.’s top spy chiefs warned Friday.

“Significant technology leadership is moving east” and causing a conflict of interests and values, Fleming said in a speech.

China is an early adopter of emerging technologies and is playing an influential role in the debate around international rules and standards, he said.

He raised the possibility of countries with “illiberal values” like China building them into technical standards that the world ends up relying on, turning them into arenas of geopolitical competition.

Russian hacking and other nefarious online activity, meanwhile, poses the most acute threat to the U.K. but, like a smartphone app vulnerability, could be avoided.

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