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The “Verification Required” screen in Discord appears when the platform detects activity that differs from your usual behavior. This automated security measure is designed to protect both your account ...

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Last week, hackers made off with roughly 70,000 scanned government IDs from a third-party provider used by Discord’s support and age-verification systems. Complete, with the usernames of the accounts ...

Earlier this year, Discord began testing a new age-verification process in the United Kingdom that required users to scan their government-issued ID. That has come back to haunt both Discord and the ...

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The breach of thousands of Discord users’ data appears to be worse than initially reported, as details of the age verification data lost to hackers are reported. Zendesk is identified as Discord’s ...

Last week, it was reported that Discord had suffered a breach of security through a third-party customer support service it uses. Specifically, its age verification system was hit and a large number ...

Discord denies these new claims. Zendesk denies involvement. Representatives of Discord and Zendesk responded to our request for comment. Firstly, Discord denies the figures being circulated online, ...

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 ...