»Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users:
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come. Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site.«
Welcome to the real world even if it's not amysant. Security also has something to do with anonymization.
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Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer who founded Turning Point USA, was shot at an event at Utah Valley University (Deseret News)
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/
one of the admins of a discord server i'm in added a "scatman john" bot that posts a random scatman john lyric every day and i would like to also have this on fedi
side note: i managed to figure out how to get a link to invite the bot myself so if you wanna do that here you go https://disc…
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users,
--DHS has forced cybersecurity pros to work on immigrant deportation,
--CA now requires browsers to honor data sharing opt outs,
--DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit are in cahoots,
--FCC data incident reporting rules are destined for oblivion,
--Telstra denies Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters bre…
Fully discrete error analysis of finite element discretizations of time-dependent Stokes equations in a stream-function formulation
Dmitriy Leykekhman, Boris Vexler, Jakob Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06235
Discord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
Gonna tell the youths on Discord that it’s so cool how they made the protesters wearing frog suits into those frog emojis that are everywhere on Discord
Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event, suspect in custody (Deseret News)
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p104#a250910p104
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer who founded Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University (Deseret News)
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/