Discord.io suffers massive data breach, announces closure

Discord.io, a work that allowed users to make customized links for their Discord channels, is closing down pursuing a ample information breach.

A hacker stole the information of 760,000 users, per TechRadar, and has posted a illustration connected Breached Forums successful bid to perchance merchantability it. The discord.io site present displays a connection saying "we are stopping each operations for the foreseeable future".

The third-party work has breached down precisely what is and isn't contained successful the stolen information successful a list.

The work says it has cancelled existing premium subscriptions. They adhd that they've yet to beryllium contacted by the hacker, and arsenic acold arsenic they cognize "the database itself has nary yet been shared publicly".