{"id":491831,"date":"2023-05-15T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=491831"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:51:04","slug":"discord-suffers-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/491831-discord-suffers-data-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"Discord suffers data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular online video and voice chat platform Discord has informed users of a data breach due to a third-party support agent’s account being compromised, BleepingComputer reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The breach had a limited impact, with the attackers gaining access to the agent’s support ticket queue.<\/p>\n

That communication included email addresses, messages, and attachments shared between users and the particular customer service agent.<\/p>\n

Discord said it immediately deactivated the compromised account once it became aware of the issue and conducted malware checks on the affected machine.<\/p>\n

“We have also worked with our customer service partner to improve their practices and help prevent these types of incidents from happening in the future,” Discord stated.<\/p>\n

The company did not reveal how the agent’s account was compromised.<\/p>\n

Discord said although it believed the risk was limited, it recommended that users be vigilant for any suspicious messages or activity, including fraud or phishing attempts.<\/p>\n

A group of security researchers previously discovered<\/strong><\/a> several security vulnerabilities in the Electron underlying framework used by Discord and Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n

In that instance, it was found that Discord users could have their systems compromised by simply clicking on a malicious video link sent on the platform.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the researchers reported the issues to Electron, and they were fixed before the findings were made public at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in August 2022.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft will take almost a year to patch Secure Boot bug<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discord said a third-party support agent’s account had been compromised, leading to the exposure of email addresses, messages, and attachments shared with its customer service representative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":476801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26872,50307,801],"class_list":["post-491831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-data-breach","tag-discord","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491853,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491831\/revisions\/491853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}