Discord user data leak resurfaces on hacker forum as third-party service disputes breach
UPDATE: Feb. 3, 2025, 3:59 p.m. EST RestoreCord has responded to Mashable regarding the data leak recently posted on the popular hacker forum BreachForums. The story and headline have been updated to reflect the new information. According to the third-party Discord backup service, the breach originally reported today by Leakd is "not accurate." RestoreCord says that there was a "small incident in November 2023 where a staff member improperly shared a limited number of IP addresses." RestoreCord also disputes the severity of one of the datapoints in the leak, saying that the IP addresses in the leak are "randomly generated IPs rather than actual user information." The company also disputes the number of IP addresses that were leaked, saying there were fewer than 5,000 total. In addition, based on this new information, Mashable was able to find that the "Restorecord 840K Records Database" file containing the stolen data had been posted on other hacker forums last year. However, the data leak has since resurfaced today on BreachForums, so Discord users previously affected by the breach should remain vigilante. The original article appears below. Nearly one million Discord users just had their account details – including usernames, IP addresses, and Discord IDs – exposed in a hacking forum. However, Discord, the popular chat room service, doesn't appear to have suffered from a data breach directly. Instead, a third-party backup solution known as RestoreCord has been breached. As first noticed by cybersecurity website Leakd, a file containing a massive leak of Discord user data was posted freely on a popular hacking forum called BreachForums. The data, which includes users' Discord IDs, IP addresses, and usernames, was posted by a BreachForums user with the handle "Sythe." RestoreCord is a service used by some Discord users to backup their servers on the platform. RestoreCord says on its website that it is "the only Discord Bot that you will ever need to protect and reco
Discord user data leak resurfaces on hacker forum as third-party service disputes breach