Disagreement, which is especially favored by players, emerged with an incident that raised questions about the security of chats. A service called Spy.pet claimed to collect messages sent by millions of users.

First of all, some messages on Discord For everyone accessible Let’s say this is so. If the servers are public, all messages can be accessed regardless of time. Special servers are needed to keep it private. Here, on the Spy.pet site, data was collected using these public servers.

More than 4 billion messages collected from 627 million users

Spy.pet’s website from here It is possible to achieve. If we look at the opened page of the site 627 million users are followed from 14 thousand servers And More than 4 billion messages were collected we can see. These include things like connected accounts, chat history, and channels. Spy.pet in November 2023 It is also said that it came out and has been sucking up user and server activity ever since.

And they’re selling all this wealth of data. When we enter the payment page of the site payment with cryptocurrency It appears that the information thus collected can be purchased. Even especially for companies There’s even a section. Spy.pet says that those who want to train artificial intelligence models with Discord messages can use this section. They wrote that government officials looking for intelligence can also use it.

What’s even more interesting is that Spy.pet does not allow data deletion. Good If a user wants to delete his data, he cannot do that either.. When you visit the takedown requests page, you’ll see the meme of Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man movies: “Are you serious?” The line will appear in front of you. In other words, the platform doesn’t care about the use of data and it’s like they’re making fun of the users.

Discord stated that it would look into the matter

The reason why Spy.pet is so useful is that the data is publicly accessible. However, there are of course parts that are illegal. Platform, users without permission by entering the servers via bots your messages to take. This is absolutely contrary to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied in the EU.

We should also point out that the platform recently suffered a DDoS attack. According to a statement in the blog post, users who wanted to delete their data attacked the site. It is not a surprising result.

Spy.net to see if action is needed, Discord told The Register. you do research transferred. The company stated that it is committed to protecting users’ privacy and data If a violation is discovered, take the necessary action He said they would throw it.