The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
From 2025.
May? May? Just say that IDs where leaked. We all know nowdays that for sure are leaked.
This article is dated “9 October 2025” which would make it almost a year old.
Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it’s fetching the headline.
If the site metadata is made to contain fhe date then yeah, but otherwise I don’t think theres a way to get the date of the html file from its url…?
If not, then there isn’t any standardized publication date format which allows us to automate retrieval.
A lot of them use this in the HTML:
<meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100"> <meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100"> <meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z"> <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is. Still, if the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to decide to continue without a date in those cases.
IT would be neat to auto-add yeah.
This article is a year old, but relevant because Discord started doing the verifications again. The plan was never canceled, just delayed to a later news cycle. And this will absolutely happen again because there are no consequences.
Here is a more recent ID verification service breach.
Storing raw photos feels like storing plaintext passwords. Hackers have access to your password and your photo now.
Ooh no! Some Russian troll farm now knows my favorite color.
Calling soyjak and kiwifarms just “Russian troll farms” really undersell the problem with them, but I guess since they regularly go after “anarkiddies”, it’s okay.
Oh this is gonna be sweet, my photo is of a 1970’s pr0nstar.
This is the fediverse. No one is going to care if use use naughty words.
penus
oh goodness this is exciting
Caacaa Doodoo
teehee.
I saw someone in this very community get in trouble for using “the r word” yesterday lol
“Porn” is not a slur. You should be able to tell the difference.
Not all naughty words are slurs, but all slurs are naughty words. You should be able to tell the difference.
really posting something from last year when the age thing is coming out
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.
we’re in a world now where we have to assume our photos, driver’s licenses and medical records are all leaked. Guard you bank account appropriately.
This is old news. It didn’t happen a second time.
Yeah, they’ve changed. This time they’ll keep the data safe, for realsies, pinky promise. Im sure they even gave their employees a stern talking to!
First ive heard of it.
Also not trying to be rude but is this Technology or Technology news? Like I keep seeing people post things but if there not like the newest tech, they get downvoted. Im not saying thats incorrect but Id like to know in case I post what the distinction is.
At some point tech turned into a catch all for big app companies, instead of gadgets and the like…
News are new.
So yes, that response is expectable.It’s funny how few people realize that etymology.
In my opinion, no, Technology is “the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life”. A data breach is not an application of scientific knowledge in any way.
is this Technology or Technology news?
What’s the difference?
I keep seeing people post things but if there not like the newest tech, they get downvoted
Probably just because the vast majority of modern tech news is horrendous and exploitative. Something the users of this platform are attuned to.
“Tech news and articles”.
Since this is purely a news article, it’s of little value a year later, when a more up-to-date article about verification would have more current information.
If it was about how some part of the tech stack worked (“article”) and things hadn’t changed that much, an older article would probably fare better.
Ah gotcha! Thanks. I dont know why I didnt make that connection then.
You should put the year clearly in the title of the post
Its there about a few hours into the post. Might take a bit to propagate all round the fedi.
Either way it’s important to convey that this article is old and it didn’t happen a second time.
This makes it sound current.
Discord announced that it’s going to start estimating user ages and using a third-party group to do so, so there is some relevance to it.
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.
Because money. We’ll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.
It would be a clear gdpr violation in Europe
Who could’ve seen that coming?
Certainly not anyone who objected to the practice.
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
