Rising Concerns as Discord.io Data Breach Compromises 760,000 Users

 

Although digital companies have multiple data protections in place to safeguard their customers’ information, hackers continue to find ways to circumvent them and gain access to sensitive data even though they have multiple data protections in place to safeguard customer data. 
Data breaches have become more common in recent years, despite an increased focus being placed on cybersecurity in recent years. There has been another data breach at Discord.io this time, unfortunately, as the company is now one of the victims of such attacks. Learn about the types of data that hackers have access to as well as what steps are being taken by the company to protect this data. 
There has been a massive data breach at a popular service used to create custom links for Discord channels which allows people to create custom links for their channels. The service has now announced that it will be shutting down operations for the time being. 
A major breach of Discord.io’s database occurred on the night of August 14, and large swaths of user data were stolen as a result. Discord announced the breach on Tuesday. As TechRadar reported in its article about the breach, more than 760,000 members of the company had their information compromised by the breach, though the company did not reveal this number in its update.
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