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 ...

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 ...

Some hackers have reportedly gained access to Discord users’ data. The data contains as many as 1.8 billion text messages, nearly 207 million voice records, and data from about 35 million users. These ...

MESSAGING PLATFORM DISCORD has said that around 70,000 users may have had their government-ID photos leaked after an age verification firm it used was hacked. Discord is an instant messaging platform ...

Hackers may have stolen the government ID photos of around 70,000 Discord users, the company said Wednesday evening. In a statement, Discord, the popular chat app, said the breach affected people who ...

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 ...

The blame game for the Discord data breach has begun, as a service provider blamed by the company claims it wasn't the cause of the hack, nor were they serving the data that was stolen. In early ...

The online speculation is that millions of government ID data items might have been stolen in an attack against an identity verification service used by Discord. Discord says it has “identified ...