Just roll all the class actions into a UBI fund for the people
The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos
Submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamer.com/discord-data-breach-2-million-photos-1-5tb-age-verification-zendesk/
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LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
congrats everyone on your two free months of credit monitoring
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 5 months ago
A certain subset of people: “B-but at least it stops kids seeing photos of dental decay!!!1111”
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
…what?
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 5 months ago
my friend who also lives in the uk was unable to view a Reddit post that had a picture of dental decay because it was marked as nsfw and Reddit requires you to verify age using ID/selfie to be in compliance with the uk’s Online Safety Act to see anything marked as nsfw.
my comment was a play on the people who think this is all worth it because it might prevent kids from seeing porn
bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s why I used a picture of my anus for my age verification photo. The wrinkles are what sold it, I think.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
the only person who’s allowed to verify my age is my cat because he won’t stop being a dick about it
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d like to use your cat verification system too.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Politicians: That’s the point.
Joking aside, now that I think about it, what difference does does it make if companies are stealing infos and spying on you with government mandated age verification checks, and hackers stealing your government mandated age verification info? This just reinforces my view that governments (and companies) are nothing but glorified gangsters.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
A hacker stealing your id can do way more malicious stuff like more expertly crafted phishing and identity fraud just to name two.
No one involved in this from the government to the companies is innocent in this chain though in my opinion. A breach is always bound to happen.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
To me giving a company or government permission to create the databases allowed for mass facial recognition is the same thing as giving the facial recognition data to criminals. It will be leaked/hacked/sold, etc. It is only a matter of time.
How many Social security numbers in the U.S. have been leaked/hacked/sold/illegally transferred? ~340 million.
Facial recognition will be a near useless tool for security in 10 years, and 100% for population monitoring at the rate we are going.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
We nearly already do this with certificate services and they would probably be in a good position to offer an id service.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 5 months ago
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
Then you just need to hack this company instead of Discord, you only change target.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Including mine. Nice job Discord! Thanks for the fake age ban…this was their plan, wasn’t it?
aliser@lemmy.world 5 months ago
so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?
gian@lemmy.grys.it 5 months ago
so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?
I would suppose that this is because there is not a single way valid for every govt. For example, in Italy we have SPID, which is different from what Germany, France and every EU state have.
If Discord wanted to use it, they had to implement a numbers of way to do it, which can be not that easy.spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
The department of Social security could have created some sort of public/private key pair to very age and DOB. But that’s too much to ask for isn’t it?
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Have you seen the USA? UK? Russia? China? I really don’t want the government making any system to tie internet to any identity. I really don’t want any government having any role in the internet.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
this is why i dont give my ID to any service(obv including Discord) anymore.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The issue here is that age verification is mandatory in the UK, and not just for Discord.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
yeah thats bad.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
More than half of them turn out to be AI
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They’re all screenshots from Detroit: Become Human
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Proofs the UK is a shithole as well funnily enough.
Nothing against the Brits but their government oh damn that’s bad.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Labour under Starmer is closet Tory. I wish that the popular Manchester Labour mayor (whose name I forgot) takes his place as PM, which actual leftist politicians try to make him to be. Although this will be a Sysiphean task under the ruthless politicking in British politics and Labour Party’s own strict rule on who could become PM.
this_is_phil@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Andy Burnham!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Wait til you see the next one.
:(
Fraction9170@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Yep. This is just the first. As long as individuals submit to these ID verifications, services which provide them will be highly targeted. I find it ridiculous that 1.5 million people actually submitted their info to access discord instead of finding a workaround or alternative. I can only imagine how many are gullible enough to verify on porn sites.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We’ll be reminiscing about good old boring Starmer once Lord Godshite inevitably gets voted in by a load of gammons
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’ve criticized the sort of personal information that is allowed to be managed by banking entities in the cases of Accidental Americans, where people who have nothing to do with America except that they were born in the US have their data handled by private entities to be passed onto governments they’ve never been in. Public entities that should handle and be responsible for it in their actual home countries want to wash their hands off from them and there’s too much money against too small of a minority for anyone to care about their rights. It doesn’t matter how banks have consistently proven that they or their staff can act criminally, either.
At least here, it affects a lot more people so it will likely bring in the change and reform it needs, even if the sensitivity of this data is significantly less.
Gonna have to say, this guy is definitely gonna be screwed by this:
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
hey don’t share my discord id photo please
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Keep on keeping on 👍
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
And this is why this provide xyz private information for verification bs should be illegal
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
In this case, it’s the opposite for people in the UK. It’s illegal to not verify age.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And why any service asking it should be moved on from.
Pretty sure these people could have found a teamspeak, matrix, or mumble server without the requirement.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank god I never gave them an image.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Quelle surprise
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Hmm, I don’t recall ever doing age verification for Discord. Were older accounts grandfather’d in, or is it currently limited by region or something?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Any time your account gets locked for age reason it requires it. So if you have never had an age lock it’s unlikely you had to do it.
It’s as easy as someone reporting you for being underage with no proof or even just saying “I’m 14 and what is this” as a meme to get locked tho.
Hell the auto flag system can hit you if you just talk like a kid sometimes.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 5 months ago
You often get age verification if your account got blocked because someone reported you to be underage
newcool1230@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I believe people from EU and people who say they were under 13 and got reported. They needed to send in a pic of them holding their ID.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
as some pointed out, eu folks didnt have to verify anything. afaik, its the uk folks that are affected
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
damn. I’m a 2 month old infant. Will i need to send in my ID??
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 months ago
Am from EU. Two accounts, but no ID confirmation required for either.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s a UK thing
They have been passing legislation to basically dox their citizens for them to gain access to the internet
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It was obvious things like this will happen, unlike banks and government sites social media sites don’t have strict cyber security requirements and they want these sites to have a government ID. It was a bad idea from the start.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 months ago
The Russia thanks UK for this valuable information
TomArrr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also currently being rolled out in Australia too 😔
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Fuck Discord
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
discord isn’t at fault here. I don’t say they do bad stuff, i just want to stick to the facts. It’s the UK government who forced them in the first place
socialsecurity@piefed.social 5 months ago
Are you really defending somebody else’s income generating business?
Discord is a threat actor
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
They enforced the verification, but discord was supposed to delete the images right after.
theherk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I agree, but fuck this dumb law first and foremost.
plz1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don’t even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.
- Zendesk for their bad OpSec
- Discord for both outsourcing this AND not having contractual requirements to properly secure and destroy PII when it was no longer required.
I work in IT, and treat PII like it’s dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.
aidan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I agree completely its moronic, but I do imagine the law requires it
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
That’s because you have ethics
luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 months ago
Me when I get a request for PII pertaining to a suspected corruption case: Have one of our corporate lawyers give me a written and explicit statement of what data I’m supposed to send to whom or get bent. I’m not touching that with a ten foot pole and gloves unless I have a legally solid affirmation that what I’m doing won’t come back to bite me, and that our workers’ council knows about it and will back me up.
I’m reluctant to even confirm that I can get that information in the first place. I mean, I’m the one with full access to the audit tool, so I probably do, but I’d have to access that data in the first place to check. I don’t think that anyone would notice or care so long as I don’t share that information, but as you said: dangerously radioactive; don’t touch if I can help it.
TomArrr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Apparently” only those who were challenging the verification results and uploaded awaiting reverification are affected.
Not that that isn’t bad enough
Kissaki@feddit.org 5 months ago
That’s even worse, in my eyes. Maybe not in scale, but when appeal process is more vulnerable, that seems very questionable.
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Right. It blows me away the required training we have to do for physical files more secured than Fort Knox! Tech world? Eh just throw it in the recycle bin
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 months ago
Age verification photos?
TommySoda@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh no it’s that thing everyone would say would happen!
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why shouldn’t I make the Torment Nexus!?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
So glad I ditched discord the second they considered going public, converting people to Matrix sucks because Element is terrible for group calls.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Should have just gone back to TeamSpeak 3
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
To the surprise of no one here. This is the first thing I think of when a system wants me to upload an ID.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So they have 2 million ai generated or free stock photos of faces?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 5 months ago
These were images of people’s ID’s, along with photos of their faces to check for a match, not stock photos or even just real selfies on their own.
Skunk@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Half of those are Norman Reedus in Death Stranding 2.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nah, it gets tricked by the first game just as easily lol
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So, I looked at age verification - it was made clear photos were on device only and never transmitted.
If this turns out to be false, then the legal fallout would be apocalyptic.
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
you agree to legal mediation other than a court in their terms of service, so… not really
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Those don’t always hold up, especially when the shit is really hitting the fan.
lemmyout@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
What legal fallout? Discord made users agree to new terms just a week ago that involves forced arbitration.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like Discord is about to have 2 million cases of arbitration to sort out.
One person takes them to arbitration, it’s short work for their legal team, if 1000 do it’s harder, if 100,000 do, you still have to respond in a timely manner. The costs would be astronomical.
Valve and a few others removed it for that reason, it’s a bomb waiting to blow.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Forced arbitration tends to backfire massively when you have something of this scale because of everyone starts doing it. The cost of that forced arbitration is more than what the lawsuits would have been without it. It’s a big reason why like steam got rid of it. If you get too many people trying to go after you, it’s just not worth it and costs too much.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Forced arbitration clauses are not legal in many European jurisdictions, so “agreeing” to them didn’t actually do anything.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I’m not sure if Discord’s ToS apply to zendesk
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Well, now I feel better about using a throwaway email when I made my account.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Anyone still defending age verification online is an idiot.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Who exactly was required to submit age verification photos? Just US citizens?
edgarzen@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Don’t ever use Tencent apps