This leak did not happen because of a lack of encryption tools, or due to some flaw in discord 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. However, discord, the popular chat room service, doesn't appear to have suffered from a data breach directly Discord is a communication platform that lets people chat via text, voice, or video, often in servers organized around communities, games, or interests. 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. 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
348 million discord messages from 1,000 servers up for sale on hacker forums, exposing user data and raising privacy concerns for american users. Over 348m discord messages allegedly scraped Billions of public discord messages might have been leaked by a website spy.pet as per recent reports.
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