Discord Data Breach – 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted

Discord Data Breach – 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted



by Shaurul

30 comments

  1. There’s a bigger question here, “Why were the images of ID cards being held for one second longer than was necessary to confirm age?” secondly “Why were these images stored without being encrypted?”.

    I know what the answer partially is. It’s because they decided to use a generic ticketing platform not designed for PII for their PII sensitive processes.

  2. This is eventually the future humanity is not ready for.

    Amen.

  3. > Discord Data Breach – 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted

    Thank the UK for showing how stupid these laws are.

  4. So if I hoarded 2 million government IDs and then lost control of them as a private citizen, you know what would happen to me? Why aren’t these people in jail?

  6. This is a good reminder not to blindly follow what the government suggests. It’s not safe at all.

  8. Somewhere in that leak there’s a ticket with my discord nick

    That ticket is me snitching on one person breaking discord TOS because they were annoying a-hole

    I regret nothing

  9. How many of those images will be used for ID fraud and AI models? Will the government care?

  10. The fraud fallout of this is going to be bad. And the world has changed, banks are are on the hook for a lot more than they should be tbh. I would be furious at the government for this nonsense

  11. Can’t wait for the EU version of OSA to kick in…

    I hope I can avoid most of the verification stuff with a VPN

  12. I see protecting the kids is working out great.

    Companies need to be made responsible and people put in jail.

  16. Make TeamSpeak 6 without the mandatory account and I will never use discord again.

  17. I’m surprised people actually upload IDs to random services. Like wtf

  18. Oh so you mean to tell me the “destroy privacy completely” law completely destroyed privacy?

    Who would’ve thought?????

  20. It shows, once again, that no data is safe on the internet… Physical IDs should not be required to identify oneself online.

  21. UK government will become such a juicy target when it intalls digital ID. I can already see all of that data being stolen and misused. Imagine an election where most of the voters didn’t know they voted.

  22. OH NO IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD SAID THAT THIS EXACT THING WOULD HAPPEN OHHH NOOOO

  23. I’m so glad I just skipped the age verification nonsense on Discord.

    Why did I skip it? Because this exact shit.

  24. Oh my god exactly what was predicted happened. Websites with shitty protections collected our ID information because of govt laws had a leak.

  25. This whole headline is a heads up to all the to states currently enacting a mandatory age check on the Internet.

  26. That’s honestly scary. I use Discord every day and never thought something like this could happen.

  27. Oh look, the thing we said that would happen…happened.

    Well chaps who would have seen this coming?

  28. The scale of the stolen data is increasing every day
     Apparently, the authorities don’t want to scare people with the size of the disaster

  30. >2.1 million government-issued identification photos used for age verification.

    And countries want this verification for *everything* now.

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