Discord manifest On Wednesday that about 70,000 users may have sensitive data-such as their government identity photos-exposed after the hackers violated a third supplier used by the age-related platform.
A discord user would make a “age -related appeal” if the platform suspects that it may be a minor or if they live somewhere that requires identity verification to access the platform. In these cases, users are called Send a selfie Holding the name of the government and the disagreement username in the platform’s confidence and security group.
Discord said it has contacted influenced users whose exposed data can also include their IP addresses, which can reveal the general area where a user lives.
According to the news site 404 mediaThis data breach may be greater than what Discord has mentioned so far. Hackers claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes worth data, which could include much more than 70,000 images. Said a representative of disagreement The legs that these claims are “wrong and part of an attempt to cheat on a payment”.
The Discord users’ data violation depicts the concerns that digital rights activists expressed the use of age controls as a means to make the internet “safer”.
Age verification laws, which require users to transfer sensitive information, such as government identifiers exposed to this breach, have come into force in about half of us states, usually for pornography sites. Pornhub, one of the most popular adult video sites, has prevented circulation from these states to avoid age controls.
The United Kingdom’s Security Law, which came into force in July, requires a wider range of platforms to verify users, such as YouTube, Spotify, Google, X and Reddit.
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