Discord will soon enact age verification for all users, a move aimed at teen safety — but one that sparked intense backlash from adults on the platform.

Social media company Discord are trying their best to reassure people irked by the recently announced global rollout of some new age verification measures.

Remember the days when age verification online meant simply clicking “Yes, I’m definitely over 18” and calling it a day? That era is going the way of flip phones and MySpace profiles. Discord, the communication platform where over 200 million monthly ...

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Messaging platform Discord has said the official ID photos of around 70,000 users have been stolen by hackers. The app, which is popular with gamers and teenagers, said the hackers targeted a firm responsible for verifying the ages of its users. Discord ...

Last week, it was reported that Discord had suffered a breach of security through a third-party customer support service it uses. Specifically, its age verification system was hit and a large number of government IDs were exposed alongside names, usernames ...

Hackers who breached Discord’s Zendesk support system are reportedly extorting the platform after stealing 2.1 million users’ age-verification photos. Discord is reportedly being extorted by hackers responsible for breaching a database containing the ...