Nearly one million Discord users exposed in third-party app ...

Nearly one million Discord users exposed in third-party app data breach

Mashable SEA | 2025-02-03 20:12

RestoreCord, a Discord backup service, has suffered a data leak, affecting millions of users. Nearly one million Discord users just had their account details - including usernames, IP addresses, and Discord IDs - exposed in a hacking forum. However, Discord, the popular chat room service, doesn't appear to have suffered from a data breach directly. Instead, a third-party backup solution known as RestoreCord has been breached. As first noticed by cybersecurity website Leakd, a file containing a massive leak of Discord user data was posted freely on a popular hacking forum called BreachForums. The data, which includes users' Discord IDs, IP addresses, and usernames, was posted by a BreachForums user with the handle "Sythe." RestoreCord is a service used by some Discord users to backup their servers on the platform. RestoreCord says on its website that it is "the only Discord Bot that y...

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