That the users that have access to your public chat room have access to your public chat room Over 348m discord messages allegedly scraped This leak did not happen because of a lack of encryption tools, or due to some flaw in discord
Maybe those jokes about "when the discord chat gets leaked" were right. Do i need to go into
It's bots scraping data people themselves allowed to the public
It is like being mad that these posts in this reddit thread are not private at all.
Cybercriminals claim access to 1.8 billion discord messages through paid scraping service, exposing 35m users to harassment and privacy risks. Introduction in april 2024, spy.pet, a notorious website for internet scraping, leaked and sold over 4 billion discord messages after a massive privacy invasion of discord Spy.pet has been quietly gathering and selling billions of public messages from discord users, sparking serious concerns about online privacy and data security. However, discord, the popular chat room service, doesn't appear to have suffered from a data breach directly
Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion discord messages that they say they scraped using discord's public api The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time discord has been active.
