Earlier this year, Discord began testing a new age-verification process in the United Kingdom that required users to scan their government-issued ID. That has come back to haunt both Discord and the users who shared that info, as a new report suggests that millions of people may have had their ID and other info exposed during a recent data hack.
According to a statement on Discord’s official site, the government-issued ID of 70,000 users may have been exposed when a third-party service provider, 5CA, was hacked. Discord had contracted 5CA to handle age-verification duties. Discord went on to state that none of its messages were breached beyond exchanges with customer support or trust and safety agents.
Cyber Security News‘ follow-up report puts the number of stolen government IDs at 2.1 million, and added that the final number of affected people may be approximately “5.5 million unique users across 8.4 million support tickets.”
