Discord has spoken out after a recent breach of a "third-party service," thought likely to be Zendesk's support system, stating that around 70,000 government ID photos may have been exposed; rather than the 2.1 million that hackers claim. It also made it clear that Discord itself wasn't breached, and that regardless of what the hackers claim, it won't be paying out any ransom demands, according to BleepingComputer.
The breach occurred on September 20, with the hackers claiming to have used the Zendesk support system to gain access to personal data like contact information, email addresses, real names, some limited payment information, and government ID documents used for authentication. No passwords were compromised, nor Discord accounts themselves, but personal information was extracted, and the hackers wanted a payout to prevent them from releasing it.
