The platform said in a press release that hackers breached a third-party vendor that Discord uses for age-related appeals.

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

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 users can be required to prove they are adults to use the platform, a process that can require users to upload their government ID cards, including driver’s licenses and passports.

In a development that will come as no surprise to critics of age-verification legislation, Discord has just put a figure on its recent security breach in terms of the number of government photo IDs ...

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