The incident highlights the challenges of state-imposed age verification. Discord has revealed the theft of around 70,000 government-issued ID photos in a recent data breach.

Discord has suffered a massive data breach, compromising sensitive information of over 70,000 users including government ...

Discord has admitted that a subset of users had their government ID images, such as passports and driver's licences accessed ...

The breach of thousands of Discord users’ data appears to be worse than initially reported as details of the age verification ...

Discord's ID photo breach exposed 70,000+ government documents when hackers infiltrated support vendor Zendesk for 58 hours ...

A breach of popular cross-platform communications app Discord may be incredibly serious, with a security research group ...

We now know exactly how small of a number this supposedly is, with Discord spokesperson Nu Wexler telling The Verge that ...

A Discord spokesperson said the breach occurred through a third-party service it uses for customer support.

Discord has confirmed that around 70,000 users may have had photos of their government-issued IDs exposed after a data breach ...

Discord said it recently discovered that a third-party firm it used to review age verification checks was hacked.

A third-party service provider was compromised, and information from people who had communicated with Discord's customer support and trust and safety teams was exposed.

A small number of government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination” were included in the leak, Discord informed users like me last week.