▲ 661 ▼ ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) (www.bbc.com) submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users. From 2025.
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 days ago (3 children) Something tells me they will not face any consequences. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children) that's just a feeling, right? there's no prior experience that could trigger that, right? *nudge, nudge. wink, wink.* Anyway, miraculously i haven't been hit with the age-wall yet, bur when i do, Discord will lose a user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, it's a shame this didn't come 1-2 years earlier before discord got its claws in more stuff. Discord really caught on in my corners of the internet in the last 2 years. Before that, it was just my Minecraft pals. Even creators who freed themselves from the advertising machine by going fan-funded on Patron style sites still use discord to communicate. I hate to see them hit by boycott action against Discord, but if you stand on an archery range, don't be surprised when you have a bunch of arrows sticking out of your noggin. ¯\(ツ)/¯ permalink fedilink source parent [–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago I checked and both of my accounts are considered adult apparently, so hopefully they won't change that in the future for me and that will be the end of that for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children) that's just a feeling, right? there's no prior experience that could trigger that, right? *nudge, nudge. wink, wink.* Anyway, miraculously i haven't been hit with the age-wall yet, bur when i do, Discord will lose a user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, it's a shame this didn't come 1-2 years earlier before discord got its claws in more stuff. Discord really caught on in my corners of the internet in the last 2 years. Before that, it was just my Minecraft pals. Even creators who freed themselves from the advertising machine by going fan-funded on Patron style sites still use discord to communicate. I hate to see them hit by boycott action against Discord, but if you stand on an archery range, don't be surprised when you have a bunch of arrows sticking out of your noggin. ¯\(ツ)/¯ permalink fedilink source parent [–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago I checked and both of my accounts are considered adult apparently, so hopefully they won't change that in the future for me and that will be the end of that for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, it's a shame this didn't come 1-2 years earlier before discord got its claws in more stuff. Discord really caught on in my corners of the internet in the last 2 years. Before that, it was just my Minecraft pals. Even creators who freed themselves from the advertising machine by going fan-funded on Patron style sites still use discord to communicate. I hate to see them hit by boycott action against Discord, but if you stand on an archery range, don't be surprised when you have a bunch of arrows sticking out of your noggin. ¯\(ツ)/¯ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago I checked and both of my accounts are considered adult apparently, so hopefully they won't change that in the future for me and that will be the end of that for me. permalink fedilink source parent