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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 70,000 Discord users may have had images of their government IDs stolen, according to an update from the company. Last week, the popular chat platform notified users that the third-party vendor ...

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 ...

There's a broader concern coming out of the Discord breach. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their ...