Security News > 2023 > August > Discord.io confirms breach after hacker steals data of 760K users
The Discord.io custom invite service has temporarily shut down after suffering a data breach exposing the information of 760,000 members.
The most sensitive information in the breach is a member's username, email address, billing address, salted and hashed password, and Discord ID. "This information is not private and can be obtained by anyone sharing a server with you. Its inclusion in the breach does mean that other people might be able to link your Discord account to a given email address," Discord.io explained about the leaking of Discord IDs.
As first reported by StackDiary, Discord.io has confirmed the authenticity of the breach in a notice to its Discord server and website and has begun temporarily shutting down its services in response.
"Discord.io has suffered a data breach. We are stopping all operations for the foreseeable future," reads a message on the service's Discord server.
The website for Discord.io contains a timeline explaing that they first learned of the data breach after seeing the post on the hacking forum.
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