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Massive data leak linked to Online Safety Act security measures

By October 10, 2025October 17th, 2025No Comments

Source: The Canary —

Civil liberties concerns aside, when you centralize data, you centralize the point of failure

According to the BBC, the leak involves the official ID photos of “70,000” people. Users can provide a photograph of themselves holding their ID to confirm their age with Discord, which they do via third party. According to Discord, it was one of these third party providers who experienced the breach.

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