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Discord.io gets taken down after massive data breach

Ransomware

Discord.io, a third-party service that helps people generate custom invites for their Discord channels, has been hacked, and information on some 760,000 members stolen. The service has since suspended its operations, and the attacker explained that this is actually a ransom attack - with a twist.

As seen on BleepingComputer, a user going by the name Akirah recently took to the new Breached forums (a successor to the old Breached forums that were shut down by law enforcement recently) to offer the Discord.io database for sale. 

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