Details of the incident

The contents were reportedly so horrific that several students at UC Irvine sought medical attention. “I heard a lot of people vomiting, a lot of people crying.”Alina Kim, a graduate student in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, told CBS:

• According to eyewitnesses, the video posted to the chat room shows human corpses being sexually assaulted.
• Other materials included images of people mistreating animals and children.

According to the report, the attackers, whom sources call “hackers”, 30 Discord channels were infiltrated. But their demands are said to be surprisingly modest – just a thousand dollars.

Thereupon, the students protested. “When we realized how widespread this problem was, we started reaching out to as many people as possible. We created a group chat to coordinate our efforts.”– said Alina Kim.

Kim and her fellow students, thanks to the use of bots that automatically follow uninvited accounts and block them on Discord Nearly 400 accounts associated with the attack were identified. According to the student, some of the attackers were members of a “far-right hate group.”

Discord has already removed the accounts responsible for the attack, saying its “community guidelines prohibit the uploading or sharing of any material depicting actual violence, blood, or animal cruelty.”

As it turned out later, the University of Irvine is only one of several educational institutions in the United States that were subjected to the same disgusting attacks. Despite our best efforts, graphic images continue to pass filters. However, it is not possible for us to talk about hackers. Judging by the statement, unknown people did not hack Discord; They created new pages and hacked into state university servers.