How Discord.io’s Entire User Database Was Stolen
Hackers stole 760,000 Discord.io accounts in August 2023, exposed user data for sale, and forced the platform to shut down indefinitely.
Discord.io was a widely used third-party platform that allowed communities to generate custom invite links for Discord servers. It was not operated by Discord, but it sat close enough to the ecosystem that hundreds of thousands of users trusted it with account access and identity data.
In mid-August 2023, attackers breached Discord.io’s infrastructure, s…
