This leak did not happen because of a lack of encryption tools, or due to some flaw in discord. Discord is a communication platform that lets people chat via text, voice, or video, often in servers organized around communities, games, or interests. Cybercriminals claim access to 1.8 billion discord messages through paid scraping service, exposing 35m users to harassment and privacy risks. Four billions public discord messages are for sale on an internet scraping service called spy.pet At first sight there doesn’t seem to be much that is illegal about it The messages were publicly accessible and there are no laws against scraping data
However, it turns out the site did disregard some laws To get this amount of data the platform gathered information from. However, discord, the popular chat room service, doesn't appear to have suffered from a data breach directly Over 348m discord messages allegedly scraped
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