Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20
Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
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@vxunderground
@vxunderground
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Chat, we are cooked Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails
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@sashahodler
Sasha Hodder
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Discord was compelled to collect users' driver's licenses for “age verification” due to laws like the UK's Online Safety Act. Unsurprisingly, it got hacked, and now over 2 million government IDs and kids' photos have been stolen. Big Gov + Big Tech = privacy nightmare. [image]
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@zkurishi
@zkurishi
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We are appalled by the severity of the Discord data breach, which is beyond imagination. More than 2 million government-issued ID photos were leaked, and there are reports that perpetrators are using them to make blackmail threats. As governments around the world tighten age
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@pocacointas
Mia Simon
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Seeing people make fun of those who submitted their IDs to Discord, but Discord literally required it for users to resolve verification issues. Doesn't even matter though, breaches like this are the new normal. The more we trust centralized systems with our data, the more
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@senatorshoshana
@senatorshoshana
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WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN. “Over 2 million government ID photos” !!!!! This is what happens with age and identity verification online. It's serious and we should take it as such. I haven't seen if it includes UK IDs, but it comes after the new UK age verification law.
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@cameronwilson
@cameronwilson
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We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks https://www.theverge.com/...
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@racheltobac
Rachel Tobac
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The Discord breach is another example of the risk of collecting IDs for age verification. If you're going to collect sensitive data, you have to protect it. We're not seeing it protected well so far.
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@prestonjbyrne
Preston Byrne
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This breach happpened because Discord implemented the UK's Online Safety Act, instead of raising the U.S. Constitution in its defense and in defense of its users.
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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UPDATE: the Discord Age Verification breach is looking worse. As age verification mandates roll out, more breaches of selfies & IDs are a near certainty. And kids will be in the mix. Source on the #DiscordBreach: @vxunderground [image]
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@dannypalmer
Danny Palmer
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Once again, I'm asking for governments and lawmakers to have the slightest idea about how the Internet does - and doesn't - work... www.bbc.com/news/article... [embedded post]
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@corbieailin
@corbieailin
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Oh wow.... It was inevitable. Good question from BleepingComputer - why retain ID documentation after verification is completed? — www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/ securit...
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@cameronwilson
Cameron Wilson
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We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks
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@phoul
Colin Childs
on bluesky
It's almost like sitting on all of this private data is a bad idea. — Hmm. 🤔 [embedded post]
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@jaypeters.net
Jay Peters
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NEW: Discord tells me that “we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed” in the data breach announced last week. — www.theverge.com/news/797051/ ...
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@videograndpa@mastodon.social
Chris Ostertag
on mastodon
Oh look, a breach of age verification documents, literally the exact thing everyone warned about with age verification laws. #tech https://www.theverge.com/...
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