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 ...

There's a broader concern coming out of the Discord breach. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their ...

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 ...

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Messaging platform Discord has said the official ID photos of around 70,000 users have been stolen by hackers. The app, which is popular with gamers and teenagers, said the hackers targeted a firm ...

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 ...

Last week, Discord revealed that a security breach had exposed some of its users' personal information — including government IDs collected for age verification. At the time, the voice chat and ...

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat ...

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 ...