ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025)

19 days ago by mesa to c/technology

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

From 2025.

GasMaskedLunatic 231 points 19 days ago

This is old news. It didn't happen a second time.

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mesamunefire 17 points 19 days ago

First ive heard of it.

Also not trying to be rude but is this Technology or Technology news? Like I keep seeing people post things but if there not like the newest tech, they get downvoted. Im not saying thats incorrect but Id like to know in case I post what the distinction is.

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schipelblorp 77 points 19 days ago

"Tech news and articles".

Since this is purely a news article, it's of little value a year later, when a more up-to-date article about verification would have more current information.

If it was about how some part of the tech stack worked ("article") and things hadn't changed that much, an older article would probably fare better.

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mesamunefire 16 points 19 days ago

Ah gotcha! Thanks. I dont know why I didnt make that connection then.

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tauonite 8 points 19 days ago

You should put the year clearly in the title of the post

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Serinus 16 points 19 days ago

Either way it's important to convey that this article is old and it didn't happen a second time.

This makes it sound current.

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Appoxo 11 points 19 days ago

News are new.
So yes, that response is expectable.

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grue 3 points 19 days ago

It's funny how few people realize that etymology.

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ParlimentOfDoom 7 points 19 days ago

At some point tech turned into a catch all for big app companies, instead of gadgets and the like...

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artyom 4 points 19 days ago

is this Technology or Technology news?

What's the difference?

I keep seeing people post things but if there not like the newest tech, they get downvoted

Probably just because the vast majority of modern tech news is horrendous and exploitative. Something the users of this platform are attuned to.

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frongt -2 points 19 days ago

In my opinion, no, Technology is "the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life". A data breach is not an application of scientific knowledge in any way.

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Sebeck012 13 points 19 days ago

Yeah, they've changed. This time they'll keep the data safe, for realsies, pinky promise. Im sure they even gave their employees a stern talking to!

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SteveKLord 11 points 19 days ago

Discord announced that it's going to start estimating user ages and using a third-party group to do so, so there is some relevance to it.

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Jaysyn 83 points 19 days ago

We told you this would happen. We told you this would be the result of "age verification". As usual, you fucking didn't listen.

I hope Discord is sued into receivership over this.

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ipkpjersi 27 points 19 days ago

Something tells me they will not face any consequences.

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MasterBlaster 6 points 19 days ago

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.

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ipkpjersi 2 points 19 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.

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njordomir 2 points 18 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)/¯

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ILikeBoobies 5 points 18 days ago

Nothing came of this.

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Tiral 3 points 18 days ago

Or ever will.

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Killer -6 points 19 days ago

Discord isn't the one that got hacked and leaked the info, it's whatever 3rd party they used.

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UltraGiGaGigantic 10 points 18 days ago

Discord vetted and chose that vendor. They are liable, and as a corporate person, their corporate charter should be revoked until it has served 70,000 sentences of accessory to identity theft.

Unless we are a nation of cowards and weaklings of course. So who are we?

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victorz 4 points 18 days ago

💯, absolutely agree. 3rd party or not it's completely irrelevant. That personal info is out in the wild and that is the point.

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fyzzlefry 4 points 18 days ago

Who the hell cares?

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PineRune 76 points 19 days ago

This article is dated "9 October 2025" which would make it almost a year old.

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Seimhe 16 points 19 days ago

Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it's fetching the headline.

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FiniteBanjo 4 points 19 days ago

If the site metadata is made to contain fhe date then yeah, but otherwise I don't think theres a way to get the date of the html file from its url...?

If not, then there isn't any standardized publication date format which allows us to automate retrieval.

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Seimhe 4 points 19 days ago

A lot of them use this in the HTML:

<meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100">
<meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100">
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z">
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">

I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is.

If the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to continue without a date if needed.

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mesamunefire 3 points 19 days ago

IT would be neat to auto-add yeah.

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cotlovan 62 points 19 days ago

I thought that they were deleting the photos immediately after verification. They didn't??? Why aren't these companies being investigated and punished?

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P1nkman 22 points 19 days ago

Because money. We'll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.

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SirHaxalot 18 points 19 days ago

This is from the leak last year. What leaked was pictures uploaded to their ticket system to appeal the result of a failed verification.

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III 4 points 19 days ago

...so you are saying their verification process is so broken that hundreds of thousands of people had to appeal a false reading. Broken and insecure, what a look.

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StabbingSky 1 point 19 days ago

It depends on the ratio of failed to successful, really. If there are hundreds of millions of successful verifications, that's a fairly low failure rate.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn 5 points 19 days ago

Why? For example, XING just got sold and with it all personal information. This is why they didn't.

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FalschgeldFurkan 4 points 19 days ago

It would be a clear gdpr violation in Europe

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Pika 58 points 19 days ago

I'm glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.

I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it's going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.

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iamthetot 0 points 19 days ago

It's still deceptive. The title should indicate that.

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plz1 50 points 19 days ago

This article is a year old, but relevant because Discord started doing the verifications again. The plan was never canceled, just delayed to a later news cycle. And this will absolutely happen again because there are no consequences.

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FalschgeldFurkan 39 points 19 days ago

Who could've seen that coming?

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some_guy 7 points 19 days ago

Certainly not anyone who objected to the practice.

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SoupBrick 14 points 19 days ago

Here is a more recent ID verification service breach.

https://www.techtimes.com/...

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jjlinux 13 points 19 days ago

Wao, again? The reasons why people keep using these bullshit services really make my mind spin. This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.

Edit: I just saw this is from last year's leak. Still, the likeness remains.

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grue 4 points 19 days ago

This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.

I say that about Windows users who jump through hoops to try to disable the spying and they get mad at me, LOL.

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jjlinux 1 point 19 days ago

Yup.

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Stolas 2 points 18 days ago

The comparison answers your question actually.

Comfort. There's a certain amount of comfort when you're within an abusive relationship. Yes, it's awful, yes you're being hurt over and over again, but you're familiar with it. You know what to expect, where as taking the leap and leaving for the unknown can be scary.

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orioler25 1 point 19 days ago

Okay, there's no difference?

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jjlinux 2 points 19 days ago

None

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orioler25 0 points 19 days ago

There's people whose lives are at risk if they leave Discord?

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jjlinux 1 point 18 days ago

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megopie 12 points 19 days ago

As far as discord is concerned, I’m a proud citizen of Albania now. Much like Eric Adams.

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Sibshops 12 points 19 days ago

Storing raw photos feels like storing plaintext passwords. Hackers have access to your password and your photo now.

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SirMaple__ 12 points 19 days ago

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Nuerion 9 points 19 days ago

really posting something from last year when the age thing is coming out

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UltraMagnus0001 9 points 19 days ago

Wow, and now they want to relay your info through 2 or 3 parties for verications.

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roserose56 9 points 19 days ago

May? May? Just say that IDs where leaked. We all know nowdays that for sure are leaked.

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Raiderkev 7 points 19 days ago

I hope I never gave them that. I had Nitro for a bit, but I don't think I would have ever willingly gave them that.

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mfed1122 7 points 19 days ago

So so so so so misleading to post this when this will be interpreted as an event from 2026. Post should be removed IMO.

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Goodlucksil 26 points 19 days ago

There's a 2025 in the title

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mfed1122 1 point 19 days ago

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

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JackbyDev 10 points 19 days ago

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)"

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mfed1122 4 points 19 days ago

Hmmm yeah that's fair. I wasn't seeing it that way

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sirico 1 point 19 days ago

Stop reading the details a knee jerk with the rest of us nerd

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daggermoon 3 points 19 days ago

Lots of adults don't even have a valid ID in the US.

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MrScottyTay 8 points 19 days ago

Well now there should be plenty for them to buy on the black market if they don't want their own ;p

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NocturnalMorning 2 points 19 days ago

How am I just now hearing about this?

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mesamunefire 1 point 19 days ago

Right? I didnt know about it.

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Ninja876 2 points 19 days ago

Oh this is gonna be sweet, my photo is of a 1970's pr0nstar.

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mesamunefire 10 points 19 days ago

This is the fediverse. No one is going to care if you use naughty words. Enjoy!

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tourist 3 points 19 days ago

penus

oh goodness this is exciting

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Zarobi 1 point 19 days ago

I saw someone in this very community get in trouble for using "the r word" yesterday lol

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Serinus 5 points 19 days ago

"Porn" is not a slur. You should be able to tell the difference.

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Zarobi -2 points 19 days ago

Not all naughty words are slurs, but all slurs are naughty words. You should be able to tell the difference.

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Ninja876 0 points 19 days ago

Caacaa Doodoo

teehee.

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Scaramanga 2 points 19 days ago

Now more than ever is the time to have a secondary ID. These hacks and data leaks are getting out of hand.

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Dojan 3 points 19 days ago

What is a secondary ID?

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Scaramanga 3 points 19 days ago

A grade A scannable ID, usually a driving license. It looks like you, but isn't you. Perfect for age verification and all this other nonsense they want us to do.

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h0tbeef 1 point 19 days ago

Where would one get this? Dark web?

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Scaramanga 1 point 18 days ago

I've sent you a private message with contacts.

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Arancello 1 point 19 days ago

we’re in a world now where we have to assume our photos, driver’s licenses and medical records are all leaked. Guard you bank account appropriately.

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bitjunkie 0 points 19 days ago

lol

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TheFrirish 0 points 19 days ago

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themachinestops 0 points 19 days ago

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SeeMarkFly -14 points 19 days ago

Ooh no! Some Russian troll farm now knows my favorite color.

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ZILtoid1991 2 points 19 days ago

Calling soyjak and kiwifarms just "Russian troll farms" really undersell the problem with them, but I guess since they regularly go after "anarkiddies", it's okay.

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