Discord Customer Service Data Breach Leaks User Info And Scanned Photo Ids

One of Discord’s third-party customer work providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” the institution says. The unauthorized statement gained entree to “information from a constricted number of users who had contacted Discord done our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams” and aimed to “extort a financial ransom from Discord.” The unauthorized statement “did not summation entree to Discord directly.”

Data perchance accessed by nan hack includes things for illustration names, usernames, emails, and nan past 4 digits of in installments paper numbers. The unauthorized statement besides accessed a “small number” of images of authorities IDs from “users who had appealed an property determination.” Full in installments paper numbers and passwords were not impacted by nan breach, Discord says. 

The institution is notifying impacted users now complete email. If your ID mightiness person been accessed, Discord will specify that. Discord besides says it revoked nan support provider’s entree to Discord’s ticketing system, has notified information protection authorities, is moving pinch rule enforcement, and has reviewed “our threat discovery systems and information controls for third-party support providers.”