Discord admits customer data theft after third-party security breach

The personal data of Discord users has been exposed after a third-party customer service provider suffered a data breach. Hackers were able to obtain support tickets from an unnamed company used by Discord to provide support. From this, they were then able to gain access to data including names and government-issued IDs. The incident took place back on September 20, and Discord says that it acted quickly to get things under control. While the number of users affected by the attacks has not been revealed, Discord is downplaying the impact by saying that only “a limited number of users” are… [Continue Reading]