Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Discord, the hugely popular messaging platform with more than ...

TL;DR: Discord confirmed a data breach involving a third-party customer service provider exposed government-ID photos of approximately 70,000 users, not 2 million as previously claimed. The incident ...

Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain ...

There's a broader concern coming out of the Discord breach. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their ...

Your government ID photos might be floating around the dark web right now, courtesy of hackers who breached Discord’s customer support system. The September attack targeted a third-party vendor ...

The company is emailing users impacted by the breach. The company is emailing users impacted by the breach. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 ...