Discord Under Hacker Attack

Discord, the well-known social media platform primarily used as a voice chat service accessible from both PCs and consoles, appears to have recently been the target of a hacker attack aimed at seizing users' personal data.

In the last week, several users, especially in the USA and UK, have received an email from the system warning them of a possible data leak and urging caution. What initially seemed like a small breach of limited importance now appears to be a problem of a much larger scale.

According to reports from 404 Media, behind the event is a hacker group that now claims possession of approximately 1.5 TB of data extracted from the platform; this data does not concern credit card accounts or similar but mainly consists of photographs and scans of documents - identity cards, driving licenses, or passports - that users had to provide to access restricted content, i.e., intended only for adults. According to calculations by The Verge, over 70,000 accounts have been affected; according to others, the figures are much higher.

Chat, we are cooked

Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance

They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos

tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 8, 2025

404 Media also reports statements from Discord spokespeople according to whom the breach was not opened in their system but on the Infosec service, which in turn reports no irregularities and has opened an investigation into a hypothetical "mole" who would have done the work from within.

"All affected users globally have been contacted, and we will continue to work closely with legal counsel, data protection authorities, and external security experts," states Nu Wexler, Discord spokesperson. "We have re-secured the affected systems and terminated our collaboration with the compromised vendor. We take our responsibility to protect your personal data seriously and understand the concern this incident may cause."

In an era where generative Artificial Intelligence technology makes giant strides every day - according to most, poorly controlled - having access to a large number of photographs and documents can constitute an invaluable commodity for malicious actors.
Has any of you received the letter from Discord?