Twitch, a popular gaming platform owned by Amazon, has been fined by Turkish regulator for violations of data privacy, according to the Anadolu Agency.
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has slapped Twitch with a penalty of two million liras, equivalent to $58,000. The fine came in the culmination of an investigation launched into a 125GB data leak at Twitch.
The data protection watchdog found that Twitch failed to adopt proactive security measures, and took action only after the breach had taken place. The risk and threat assessments at Twitch were found to be inadequate as well, according to the regulator.
The data leak impacted 35,274 individuals across the country. The fine has been imposed for both Twitch’s failure to take adequate security measures and not reporting the breach. Twitch has not commented on the penalty so far.
Earlier in May, Turkey fined Meta $37.2 million for data-sharing among Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as linking its X’s rival app Threads to Instagram. Both data sharing and app linking constituted violations under the country’s competition laws.
Later in August, Instagram was blocked in the country over allegations that it did not comply with local laws. The violations were not specified, however. The platform was restored after nine days.
