Hack of Discord's outsourced support vendor leaks ID images and more
Discord's outsourced customer support vendor was hacked, leaking customer support request records and users' personal information. The leaked data included ID images submitted by about 70,000 people for age verification. Discord confirmed that information had been stolen through a third-party breach and confirmed the scale of the ID exposure.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Discord
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- ID images of about 70,000 people and personal information of customer support users
- Cause / method
- Hack of outsourced customer support vendor
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- The leak of personal information and ID images related to Discord customer support came to light.
- Discord disclosed that some user information had been leaked through a hack of its outsourced customer support vendor.
- Discord confirmed that ID images of about 70,000 people had been exposed.
- Backlash against Discord's age verification policy continued following the ID leak.
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