Discord Vendor Refuses to Be Blamed for Hack and Data Theft

The company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn't hacked

Customer service support company 5CA has released a statement contradicting claims by Discord that it was the victim of a hack last month. On October 3, Discord disclosed a data breach that the company says included a “small number” of government IDs like driver’s licenses and passports, which some users had submitted to verify their ages. Days later the company updated its statement to name 5CA as the target of the hack, which Discord contracts…

Discord vendor refuses to be blamed for hack and data theft

The blame game for the Discord data breach has begun, as a service provider blamed by the company claims it wasn't the cause of the hack, nor were they serving the data that was stolen.Discord iconIn early October, Discord disclosed that a "Security Incident" occurred affecting approximately 70,000 users. After an initial notice was published on October 3, Discord later updated the page, directing the blame for the hack onto one of its providers…

Customer service support company behind Discord breach says it wasn't hacked

Curiouser and curiouser. 5CA, the customer service support company that Discord says was hacked for the personal identification of approximately 70,000 users, has issued a statement contradicting Discord’s claims. “We are aware of media reports naming 5CA as the cause of a data breach involving one of our clients,” reads the statement. “Contrary to these reports, we can confirm that none of 5CA’s systems were involved, and 5CA has not handled an…

Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’

5CA is a customer service support company that works with Discord. Recently, the chat platform said the vendor had been breached as part of a "security incident" where 70,000 government ID photos may have leaked. Now, 5CA says in a post on its website that it was "not hacked." According to Discord, "this incident impacted a limited number of users who had communicated with our Customer Support or Trust & Safety teams," and "of the accounts impac…

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