The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
From 2025.
I hope I never gave them that. I had Nitro for a bit, but I don’t think I would have ever willingly gave them that.
So so so so so misleading to post this when this will be interpreted as an event from 2026. Post should be removed IMO.
There’s a 2025 in the title
I get that. I mean, that’s how I knew to come down here and say that it was misleading. But surely we can agree it’s strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what’s been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Like, the 2025 part is only needed because the post is misleading to begin with
But surely we can agree it’s strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what’s been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news.
Now that Discord has begun rolling out the ID verification that they postponed a few months ago, I think it’s a pretty important reminder. And as was said, the post title specifically says “(2025)”
Hmmm yeah that’s fair. I wasn’t seeing it that way
Stop reading the details a knee jerk with the rest of us nerd
How am I just now hearing about this?
We told you this would happen. We told you this would be the result of “age verification”. As usual, you fucking didn’t listen.
I hope Discord is sued into receivership over this.
Nothing came of this.
Or ever will.
Discord isn’t the one that got hacked and leaked the info, it’s whatever 3rd party they used.
Who the hell cares?
Discord vetted and chose that vendor. They are liable, and as a corporate person, their corporate charter should be revoked until it has served 70,000 sentences of accessory to identity theft.
Unless we are a nation of cowards and weaklings of course. So who are we?
💯, absolutely agree. 3rd party or not it’s completely irrelevant. That personal info is out in the wild and that is the point.
Something tells me they will not face any consequences.
that’s just a feeling, right? there’s no prior experience that could trigger that, right? *nudge, nudge. wink, wink.*
Anyway, miraculously i haven’t been hit with the age-wall yet, bur when i do, Discord will lose a user.
I checked and both of my accounts are considered adult apparently, so hopefully they won’t change that in the future for me and that will be the end of that for me.
As far as discord is concerned, I’m a proud citizen of Albania now. Much like Eric Adams.
Wao, again? The reasons why people keep using these bullshit services really make my mind spin. This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.
Edit: I just saw this is from last year’s leak. Still, the likeness remains.
The comparison answers your question actually.
Comfort. There’s a certain amount of comfort when you’re within an abusive relationship. Yes, it’s awful, yes you’re being hurt over and over again, but you’re familiar with it. You know what to expect, where as taking the leap and leaving for the unknown can be scary.
Okay, there’s no difference?
None
There’s people whose lives are at risk if they leave Discord?
This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.
I say that about Windows users who jump through hoops to try to disable the spying and they get mad at me, LOL.
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Now more than ever is the time to have a secondary ID. These hacks and data leaks are getting out of hand.
What is a secondary ID?
A grade A scannable ID, usually a driving license. It looks like you, but isn’t you. Perfect for age verification and all this other nonsense they want us to do.
Where would one get this? Dark web?
Lots of adults don’t even have a valid ID in the US.
Well now there should be plenty for them to buy on the black market if they don’t want their own ;p
Wow, and now they want to relay your info through 2 or 3 parties for verications.
Who could’ve seen that coming?
Certainly not anyone who objected to the practice.
I thought that they were deleting the photos immediately after verification. They didn’t??? Why aren’t these companies being investigated and punished?
This is from the leak last year. What leaked was pictures uploaded to their ticket system to appeal the result of a failed verification.
…so you are saying their verification process is so broken that hundreds of thousands of people had to appeal a false reading. Broken and insecure, what a look.
It depends on the ratio of failed to successful, really. If there are hundreds of millions of successful verifications, that’s a fairly low failure rate.
Why? For example, XING just got sold and with it all personal information. This is why they didn’t.
It would be a clear gdpr violation in Europe
Because money. We’ll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.
May? May? Just say that IDs where leaked. We all know nowdays that for sure are leaked.
I’m glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.
I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it’s going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.
It’s still deceptive. The title should indicate that.
really posting something from last year when the age thing is coming out
