- The pirates announce a database with 1.8 billion discord messages on the Dark web forums
- It is possible that scraped data is public
- Discord should close the service
Someone sells nearly two billion messages of contention and other data, allegedly scratched by the platform, warned experts.
Security researchers at Cybernesswhich saw an ad on an underground hacking forum for the archives.
The data, most likely scratched from the platform, include 1.8 billion discord messages, 35 million users, 207 million vocal sessions and 6,000 contention servers, and can be obtained for fees.
A spy. Copycat?
Discord is a communication platform that allows people to discuss by text, voice or video, often in servers organized around communities, games or interests. It is popular for games, social groups and professional communities, and many servers on the platform are public, which means that anyone can join and read content, including chat messages, members of members, etc.
This also means that a large part of the data sold by the disbelievers could be public. However, although the content is technically visible, the mass harvest always violates the conditions of use of the platform, and using it for commercial purposes, or the collection of personal data, could meet laws on confidentiality such as the GDPR or the CCPA.
Whether or not the data can be determined only with a detailed analysis, which no one has done at the time of the press. In any case, it is likely that the discord stops it, similar to the way he closed a previous service that tried the same thing, called Spy.pet.
At the end of April 2024, a website that offered billions of Discord chat newspapers for sale was released by the cat application supplier. The discord accounts associated with the service were prohibited and the company confirmed that the service had violated its TOS:
“The scratching of our services and of oneself is violations of our conditions of use and our community guidelines,” the company spokesman said in a statement at the time. “In addition to prohibiting affiliated accounts, we are considering appropriate legal action.”
