{"id":20391,"date":"2025-10-09T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/hack-of-age-verification-firm-may-have-exposed-discord-users-id-photos\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:37:52","slug":"hack-of-age-verification-firm-may-have-exposed-discord-users-id-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/hack-of-age-verification-firm-may-have-exposed-discord-users-id-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users\u2019 ID photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken<\/p>\n<p>Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks.<\/p>\n<p>Some users\u2019 names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord\u2019s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/oct\/09\/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/816bbf2c365ca0cddc177512beb3ee9ee43602cf\/413_861_1503_1202\/master\/1503.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7df025cd64dd6908c45385a58d5ad405\" title=\"Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users\u2019 ID photos\" \/>Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken<br \/>\nGovernment ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks.<br \/>\nSome users\u2019 names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord\u2019s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users\u2019 names, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/hack-of-age-verification-firm-may-have-exposed-discord-users-id-photos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users\u2019 ID photos<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}