According to recent reports, the popular messenger and chat service Discord have been struggling with a massive data breach for a long time. There are more than this 600 million Users affected.
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On one side November 2023 available website with the dubious name Spy.pet is claimed to have collected billions of public Discord messages from its servers. You should have access to these against a corresponding fee total can provide.
Discord: Over four billion messages are for sale
Current media reports such as that of the US portal 404media According to the operators of Spy.pet, there are over 628 million users four billion public messagesthat are on whole 14,000 Discord servers were sent into their possession. So it should be possible all chats of a single user at once – even if the communication took place on different servers.
This is with the traditional one Search function the messaging and voice chat service is not possible to this extent. In addition, access to the respective servers is usually required first – practically an additional one Security mechanism, which Spy.pet customers bypass for a fee. In a broader sense, this also opens the door to stalkers and people who could harm others by publishing their messages.
The Data exchange takes place in exchange for a sum Creditswhich in turn costs a minimum fee of the equivalent of five US dollars in the form of Cryptocurrencies can be purchased for 500 of them. With just ten credits You get an overview of a user's activities, which sometimes shows the most recent messages including the respective server and the time they were written. It would also be possible to save the data as CSV file to export.
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Are your private messages also affected?
Anyone who is now justifiably panicking should first calm down: So far there is no evidence that private messages could have fallen into the clutches of Spy.pet. The dubious portal probably does not collect information from all Discord servers, while it remains unclear what procedure it follows.
It is much more likely that (too) curious users of the service find it essential more comfortable have to find out information that would otherwise have taken a lot of effort to obtain – after all, as already mentioned, these are only public news stories. However, there could be one, especially for companies Possibility This makes it easy to recognize user information and preferences and use this to your own advantage.
In the future, you should simply carefully consider what information you share with others on servers that are not particularly well protected or that are only used by you in a more private setting. If you've done this on Discord so far, that's it Dangeremitted by Spy.pet is comparatively low and you don't have to worry about anything. The operators' approach is in any case illegal and not only violates Discord's general terms and conditions, but possibly even data protection laws.
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