- Hackers are announcing a database with 1.8 billion messages of discord in dark web forums
- It is possible that the scraped data are public
- Discord is expected to turn off the service
Someone is selling almost two billion messages of discord and other data, supposedly scraped from the platform, experts have warned.
Security researchers in Cybernewswho saw an ad in an underground pirarrassment forum for the file.
The data, most likely scraped from the platform, include 1.8 billion messages from discord, 35 million users, 207 million voice sessions and 6,000 discord servers, and can be obtained for a rate.
A Spy.pet imitator?
Discord is a communication platform that allows people to chat for text, voice or video, often in organized servers around communities, games or interests. It is popular for games, social groups and professional communities equally, and many servers on the platform are public, which means that anyone can join and read the contents, including chat messages, the names of the members and more.
This also means that much of the data sold by criminals could be public. Even so, although the content is technically visible, the mass harvest still violates the terms of service of the platform, and use it for commercial purposes, or the collection of personal data, could find privacy laws such as the GDPR or CCPA.
If the data is public or not, they can only be determined with a detailed analysis, which no one has done at the time of publication. In any case, Discord is likely to turn it off, similar to how he closed a previous service that tried the same, called Spy.pet.
At the end of April 2024, the Chat Applications provider did not make a website that offered billions of discord chat records for sale. Discord accounts associated with the service were prohibited, and the company confirmed that the service violated its coughs:
“Rejecting our services and auto-what are violations of our terms of service and community guidelines,” said the company’s spokesman in a statement at that time. “In addition to prohibiting affiliated accounts, we are considering appropriate legal actions.”
