I got a strange email from Discord last Friday at the very end of the work day informing me of “a recent security incident on September 20 involving your personal data.” It said personal info related ...

Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their government-issued IDs stolen as part of a major breach of the popular chat and messaging app Discord. While that may seem like a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Discord, the hugely popular messaging platform with more than ...

Communication platform Discord has confirmed that its user data was compromised during a third-party customer service hack. The platform, with over 200 million users, allows its customers to send free ...

The popular social media app Discord is warning users about a recent data breach within its platform. The company said over 70,000 users could have been affected, and have been informed of the hack, ...

Earlier this year, Discord began testing a new age-verification process in the United Kingdom that required users to scan their government-issued ID. That has come back to haunt both Discord and the ...

TL;DR: Discord reported that sensitive data from about 70,000 users, including government ID photos, was exposed due to a breach at a third-party customer service provider, 5CA. However, 5CA denies ...