Discord

Discord has postponed plans to introduce mandatory age verification for all users following widespread criticism from its community. The platform’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Stanislav Vishnevskiy, said the global rollout – initially scheduled for March – has been pushed to the second half of the year. The proposed system is aimed at identifying users…

Discord has revealed that personal identification photos belonging to roughly 70,000 users may have been compromised following a cyber-attack on one of its third-party service providers. The company, which hosts more than 200 million users globally, said the incident did not involve a direct breach of its own systems. Instead, hackers reportedly targeted an external…