NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

For some users this means their passports & drivers licenses.

Discord has only run age verification for 6 months.

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.


Proponents say age verification = showing your ID at the door to a bar.

But the analogy is often wrong.

It's more like: bouncer photocopies some IDs, & keeps them in a shed around back.

There will be more breaches.

But it should bother you that the technology promised to make us all safer, is quickly making us less so.

STORIES:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/10/05/discord-confirms-users-hacked---photos-and-messages-accessed/

https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack