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A third-party service for customer support was hit.
About 70,000 users may have had government ID photos accessed.
The incident highlights the challenges of state-imposed age verification.
Discord has revealed the theft of around 70,000 government-issued ID photos in a recent data breach.
The platform was targeted by cybercriminals who compromised one of Discord's third-party vendors. The vendor in question provided customer support services, including age verification, which requires a photo ID displaying the user's date of birth -- a mechanism launched in response to new age verification laws imposed in the UK, which is being followed in the EU, Australia, and some US states.
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The company said the cyberattack's overall aim was to use the stolen data as leverage to secure a "financial ransom."
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