Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.
The chat platform revealed late last week that an unnamed customer service vendor had been compromised, exposing support tickets and personal details submitted by users who had contacted Discord's help or Trust & Safety teams.
The company stressed that its own systems were not directly accessed. However, stolen data may include names, email addresses, billing information such as payment type and the last four digits of credit cards, and – in some cases – images of government IDs provided for age verification purposes.
Discord stated that attackers could access IP addresses, messages, and attachments sent to customer service agents.
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