Discord users that signed up for a third-party backup service called RestoreCord may have had their data leaked in a breach. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images UPDATE: Feb. 3, 2025, ...

In 2025, it feels like cybercriminals are winning while the world's biggest data hoarders are losing. One by one, global giants are admitting they've been breached, from tech powerhouses like Google ...

Discord is changing the way usernames work, which includes cutting the four digits at the end of each handle. The chat platform announced the change via an official blog post on May 3. The ...

The takeaway: Discord has disclosed that a breach at one of its external customer service vendors exposed personal information belonging to a subset of users. Although Discord's core platform was not ...

Communication platform Discord has confirmed that its user data was compromised during a third-party customer service hack. The platform, with over 200 million users, allows its customers to send free ...

The good old days of Discord users being branded by numbers are on the way out. Now, get ready for Discord to feel a lot more like the average social networking app with its new naming system, wherein ...

Discord is making changes to its usernames that will finally eliminate the four-digit "discriminators" that make them so unwieldy. It's also adding a new Display Names option, so the way you appear to ...

A data scraping service is selling information on what it claims to be 600 million Discord users. A report from 404 Media details Spy Pet, an online service that gathers, stores and sells troves of ...

Discord is making changes to its username on the platform. The company recently announced that it is doing away with the old usernames, which include numeric digits as suffixes, and moving to ...

Discord "detected, removed and reported the user," which led to an arrest. A 13-year-old boy from Ohio has been charged in connection with a plot to commit a mass shooting at a synagogue in September ...