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The data of 760,000 Discord.io users was put up for sale on the darknet (stackdiary.com)

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An unidentified individual has listed the data of 760,000 Discord.io users for sale on a darknet forum. This discovery was brought to light by the "Information Leaks" Telegram channel, associated with the Russian service for tracking vulnerabilities, data leaks, and monitoring fraudulent online resources.

For clarity, Discord.io is a third-party interface tailored for the widely-used Discord messenger. The offered database comprises details like email addresses, hashed passwords, and other user-specific data.

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[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

The fact that the passwords are hashed is small comfort. It’s good for sure but potentially impacted users should still change their passwords and any accounts that share that password.

Don’t share passwords but if you do and yours is compromised attackers can use it to try and access other services. If you reuse the credentials and Discord.io uses some bad practices (like not salting their hashes) then you’re at risk.

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