▲ 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.
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago (4 children) There's a 2025 in the title permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 days ago (2 children) I get that. I mean, that's how I knew to come down here and say that it was misleading. But surely we can agree it's strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what's been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Like, the 2025 part is only needed because the post is misleading to begin with permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 child) But surely we can agree it's strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what's been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Now that Discord has begun rolling out the ID verification that they postponed a few months ago, I think it's a pretty important reminder. And as was said, the post title specifically says "(2025)" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago Hmmm yeah that's fair. I wasn't seeing it that way permalink fedilink source parent [–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 point 4 days ago Stop reading the details a knee jerk with the rest of us nerd permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 days ago (2 children) I get that. I mean, that's how I knew to come down here and say that it was misleading. But surely we can agree it's strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what's been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Like, the 2025 part is only needed because the post is misleading to begin with permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 child) But surely we can agree it's strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what's been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Now that Discord has begun rolling out the ID verification that they postponed a few months ago, I think it's a pretty important reminder. And as was said, the post title specifically says "(2025)" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago Hmmm yeah that's fair. I wasn't seeing it that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 child) But surely we can agree it's strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what's been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Now that Discord has begun rolling out the ID verification that they postponed a few months ago, I think it's a pretty important reminder. And as was said, the post title specifically says "(2025)" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago Hmmm yeah that's fair. I wasn't seeing it that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago Hmmm yeah that's fair. I wasn't seeing it that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 point 4 days ago Stop reading the details a knee jerk with the rest of us nerd permalink fedilink source parent