Discord.io hacked

[Demon_Skeith]

Discord.io, a third-party service that helps people generate custom invites for their Discord channels, has been hacked, and information on some 760,000 members stolen. The service has since suspended its operations, and the attacker explained that this is actually a ransom attack - with a twist.

As seen on BleepingComputer, a user going by the name Akirah recently took to the new Breached forums (a successor to the old Breached forums that were shut down by law enforcement recently) to offer the Discord.io database for sale.

They provided a few examples to illustrate the legitimacy of their claim. Apparently, the database contains different types of information, including user IDs, salted and hashed passwords, and last payment made, among others.

More info here: DISCORD.IO | Details about continued operations

 

[Marc]

Your billing address
This should only concern a small number of people and corresponds to the billing address you gave us in order to make a purchase on our site before we began using Stripe.

They should have deleted this after switching to Stripe.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

They should have deleted this after switching to Stripe.

Learned the hardway.

 

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, Discord.io can improve their site's security to reduce the chance of getting hack again.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Was this the reason why Discord asked their users to change their usernames sometime about 1 or 2 months ago? I don't use Discord often, it's more of WhatsApp for me. I have more friends to chat on WhatsApp than on Discord.

 

[Dead2009]

Was this the reason why Discord asked their users to change their usernames sometime about 1 or 2 months ago? I don't use Discord often, it's more of WhatsApp for me. I have more friends to chat on WhatsApp than on Discord.

Are you talking about when they announced they were doing away with the numbered IDs? Probably not.