Linus Tech Tips Discussion

 Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs Summary Third party service provider got compromised and hackers gained access to a bunch of things, including the ID scan you provided for "age verification".   Quotes Quote One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” the company says. The unauthorized party gained access to “information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams” and aimed to “extort a financial ransom from Discord.” The unauthorized party “did not gain access to Discord directly.” Data potentially accessed by the hack includes things like names, usernames, emails, and the last four digits of credit card numbers. The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.” My thoughts So much for discord "not putting a target on their back". Any reasonable person couldve seen this coming from a mile away. And as the "hand us over your gov id" plague keeps on spreading this will only get worse...   Sources https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack