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Discord faces data-security scrutiny and incidents
When appear, the immediate goal is to lock out the intruder, reclaim control, and harden the account against follow‑up attacks; the practical steps are a forced password reset, revoking unknown device...
Discord’s stated policy is to notify users when government entities seek their account data through legal process and to provide a copy of the legal process unless a court or law forbids notice; reque...
Discord does not keep deleted messages publicly recoverable, but the company retains content on its systems until deletion and can preserve or produce that content to law enforcement when served with ...
A review of the supplied reporting finds only a single clearly documented public appearance by that touches on politics: testified to the in January 2024 about Discord’s moderation practices and safet...
Federal and state prosecutors have relied on -originating material in several high-profile prosecutions — most conspicuously the tied to and a string of cited in ’s lawsuit against Discord — and platf...
There is no public, official policy in the provided reporting that says an account will be automatically “flagged” simply for being restored and put into user‑initiated deletion ; official documentati...
Reporting a message from a deleted Discord account as a child-safety concern triggers Discord’s safety review process: the company can disable or remove accounts and content, escalate serious cases (C...
does not reliably erase a user’s sent messages across other people’s DM histories simply by deleting the account; the company says content may be retained and anonymized so conversations persist for o...