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Discord Data Breach - Customers Personal Data and Scanned Photo IDs leaked (cybersecuritynews.com)
submitted 2 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"bUt wE nEEdeD iT tO pRoTeCt tHe cHiLdrEn"

No you lying politicians, you needed it for surveillance reasons and now you harmed everyone instead.. -.-"

Same for the chat control which keeps getting put on the table in Europe, there aint no thing like a backdoor "only for the good guys", bad actors will find and abuse it eventually.

Hit up your politicians, tell them to start actually caring for your best interests instead of speedrunning towards a surveillance state.

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

there aint no thing like a backdoor "only for the good guys"

And why are we even thinking of the oppressors as "the good guys" at this point? Draconian acts like these make them very, very bad actors. I'll even call them evil. Yeah, I've lost all faith in our digital future...

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scanned photo IDs. Is Discord one of those that claims they don't save those? Even if not, what the fuck?

[–] Confining@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s almost like we told everyone long ago what was going to happen. But we are the paranoid ones.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's fun to live in a world where basic reasoning and not having goldfish memory is like being cursed by Apollo with visions of the future none will believe.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wain't that cassandra

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 2 days ago

We are a society of Cassandras ruled by a 1% of Parises knowably burning our home to the ground and they dgaf, like Paris.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://hackread.com/discord-data-breach-hackers-ids-billing-support-chats/

So uh, according to this article, and also Mutahar ( not sure what his source was )...

Yeah it was "apparently" ZenDesk that got compromised.

I... think that might actually be worse, as... ZenDesk is used a lot by a lot of B2B and client facing type shit.

Because that would mean ZenDesk are actually the people not deleting photo ids and other PII.

Yeah, Discord itself seems to be fine, in the sense of their own in house systems not being comprimised, but uh yeah, yeah, this is what happens when you leave things to trusted expert vendors who are in fact not experts and probably should not be trusted.

Yeah, this is why... the model of ... requiring your actual identification to do more and more on the net... is very bad.

You are basically just doxxing yourself with a randomly timed fuse, at this rate, everybody, every business gets hacked, all the time, its just normal now.

So anyway yeah, hope you didn't send a support ticket to Discord any time lately.

[–] goldkiddo@feddit.it 14 points 2 days ago

oh no, unexpected!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Cornea scans? Ball print? Areola prints? Anal print?

Nah! Face! Sign in to discord with your face! Its totally safe and secure!

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The incident did not compromise Discord’s main systems, and the unauthorized access was limited to data handled by the company’s support teams.

So if you've never interacted with support, you're maybe ok?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably, as it looks right now.

I wrote a top level comment with more details and a more recent, more fleshed out article as a source.

Basically, the only mistake Discord made ... appears to havr been trusting ZenDesk, it was apparently their systems that got breached, Discord hands support ticket management off to them as a contractor, and ZenDesk appear to be the people where this shit actually got lifted from, ZenDesk's Discord support silo.

Also, the group claiming credit is laspus....they have a number of pretty high profile breaches of corpo systems under their belt already.