If you were in a public Discord any time over the past decade, you weren’t just chatting with your friends—you were ...

And so it has: A new 404 Media report says Spy.pet was at one point scraping as many as 14,000 Discord servers ... of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), while ...

Discord banned accounts tied to Spy.Pet, a website known for mining and selling millions of users' messages. Spy.Pet used bots to scrape data from 14,000 servers, affecting nearly 620 million ...

As reported by The Register, the internet-scraping company Spy.pet has been actively harvesting data from Discord since November of last year. In the time since, it has collected over four billion ...

UPDATE 4/29: The SpyPet site has been taken down for violating Discord's rules. In a quick test Monday, SpyPet's website no longer loads. Instead, it times out and ...

But many Discord users many not expect their messages, server memberships, bans, or other data to be grabbed by ... indication of the reach of Spy Pet's scraping, it's an effective warning ...

404Media initially broke the story, reporting that an online service called Spy Pet was scraping over 10,000 servers throughout Discord. The massive amount of data accumulated from this activity ...

Discord servers can be freely created by users ... large-scale language models)' and 'you may not mine or scrape any data, content, or information available on or through the Discord Service.' ...

Their team has explained that their services have not been compromised and the claims regarding their data security practices ...

UPDATE: Feb. 3, 2025, 3:59 PM 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 ...

Discord users that signed up for a third-party backup service called RestoreCord may have had their data leaked in a breach. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images UPDATE: Feb. 3 ...