Roughly 70,000 Government ID Photos Potentially Stolen in Discord Hack

Compromised info includes Discord usernames, purchase histories, and the last four digits of credit cards.

This illustration picture taken on May 27, 2020, in Paris shows the logos of the social network applications Zoom, Discord, Teams, and WhatsApp on the screen of a phone. Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images

Government ID photos of around 70,000 Discord users, collected for age verification purposes, may have been stolen in a hack, the company said in an Oct. 9 update. Discord is a group chat app used largely by programmers and gamers.

Initially announced on Oct. 3, the data breach occurred on the systems of third-party vendor 5CA, which Discord uses for customer support efforts. The malicious actor aimed to extort a financial ransom from Discord, the company stated.