Discord’s Data Drama: No Ransom for Hackers in Alleged 5.5 Million User Breach!
Discord refuses to pay hackers claiming to have swiped data from 5.5 million users via a compromised support agent’s account. The company disputes the severity, stating only 70,000 user IDs were exposed and not the alleged 2.1 million. The hackers, demanding millions, are “extremely angry” after Discord’s public statement.
Hot Take:
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When hackers give you threats, make public statements and refuse to pay ransom. Discord’s approach to a massive data breach is less “cough up the cash” and more “toughen up the defenses”. They’re not playing into the hackers’ game, even if it means playing hardball with public opinion. It’s like a high-stakes poker game, but with way more tech jargon and fewer chips to cash in.
Key Points:
- Discord’s data breach involves 5.5 million unique users, but they’re not paying the ransom.
- Hackers claimed to have accessed 1.6 TB of data through a compromised support agent’s account.
- Discord asserts that only about 70,000 users had their government ID photos exposed.
- Negotiations with hackers broke down, leading to threats of data leaks.
- Discord maintains this was a breach of a third-party service, not their internal system.
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