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ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, #Discord says

by Osmond Chia, October 9, 2025

"Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a #CyberAttack.

"The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.

"People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#privacy #dataprivacy #TechnologyNews

Ummmm...

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, #Discord says

by Osmond Chia, October 9, 2025

"Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a #CyberAttack.

"The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.

"People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#privacy #dataprivacy #TechnologyNews

A nice piece from #BiometricUpdate about the problems the #PrivateSector #Business world runs into when forcing employees and customers to use #Biometrics as ID.

#TechnologyNews

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/biometrics-deployments-at-scale-need-transparency-to-help-businesses-gain-trust

A nice piece from #BiometricUpdate about the problems the #PrivateSector #Business world runs into when forcing employees and customers to use #Biometrics as ID.

#TechnologyNews

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/biometrics-deployments-at-scale-need-transparency-to-help-businesses-gain-trust