The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
From 2025.
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.
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.
Yeah, it’s a shame this didn’t come 1-2 years earlier before discord got its claws in more stuff. Discord really caught on in my corners of the internet in the last 2 years. Before that, it was just my Minecraft pals. Even creators who freed themselves from the advertising machine by going fan-funded on Patron style sites still use discord to communicate. I hate to see them hit by boycott action against Discord, but if you stand on an archery range, don’t be surprised when you have a bunch of arrows sticking out of your noggin. ¯\(ツ)/¯
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.
Discord isn’t the one that got hacked and leaked the info, it’s whatever 3rd party they used.
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.
Who the hell cares?
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.
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.
Because money. We’ll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.
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
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.
“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.
News are new.
So yes, that response is expectable.It’s funny how few people realize that etymology.
At some point tech turned into a catch all for big app companies, instead of gadgets and the like…
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.
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.
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.
Who could’ve seen that coming?
Certainly not anyone who objected to the practice.
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.
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
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.
Yup.
As far as discord is concerned, I’m a proud citizen of Albania now. Much like Eric Adams.
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.
If the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to continue without a date if needed.
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.
Wow, and now they want to relay your info through 2 or 3 parties for verications.
May? May? Just say that IDs where leaked. We all know nowdays that for sure are leaked.
Here is a more recent ID verification service breach.
really posting something from last year when the age thing is coming out
