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Discord security bot Double Counter breached exposing user email addresses

A cyberattack targeting the Discord security bot Double Counter has compromised user data, leaving millions of email addresses and user identifiers exposed online.

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Hackers breached the Discord security service Double Counter in a multi-stage attack, CyberSecurityNews, WN Hub, and Rock Paper Shotgun reported. The incident exposed user email addresses and Discord identifiers. Discord operates as a messaging platform where users communicate across private and public servers, according to Wikipedia. [1][8][10][14]

Outlets provided varying figures regarding the total number of compromised email addresses. WN Hub and shattered.io reported that roughly 1 million email addresses were exposed, while Softonic and GameRiv stated that 275,000 email addresses were published online. Rock Paper Shotgun reported that hackers stole millions of Discord IDs and email addresses during the deliberate breach. [8][9][10][11][12]

Double Counter functions as a security bot designed to protect Discord communities from automated accounts and spam. Rock Paper Shotgun reported that the incident was characterized as a multi-stage attack specifically aimed at the service's database. [10]

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In short

  • Double Counter was compromised in a multi-stage cyberattack that exposed user data.
  • Outlets report that between 275,000 and 1 million email addresses were compromised.
  • Discord user identifiers and email addresses were posted online following the breach.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Discord Users’ Data Exposed in Security Bot Double Counter Security BreachCyberSecurityNews, 5h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]ASOS Confirms Cyberattack, Data BreachSecurityWeek, 15h ago
  3. [3]Advantest Discloses Data Breach Months After Ransomware AttackSecurityWeek, 12h ago
  4. [4]Georgia Power, Alabama Power Data Breach Hits 400,000 AccountsSecurityWeek, 10h ago
  5. [5]ASOS Hackers Hijack App Notifications, Claim Snowflake Data BreachHackread, 1d ago
  6. [6]EY Data Breach Exposes Goldman Sachs and Man Group Clients’ Tax and Financial DataGBHackers News, 9h ago
  7. [7]Elastic Patches 14 Security Flaws, Including One Enabling Cross-Tenant Data InterceptionGBHackers News, 14h ago
  8. [8]A security breach has compromised the Discord protection bot Double Counter, resulting in the exposure of approximately 1 million email addressesWN Hub, 5h ago
  9. [9]Double Counter Breach Exposes 1M Discord User Emails [2026]shattered.io, 1h ago
  10. [10]Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double CounterRock Paper Shotgun, 9h ago
  11. [11]Discord bot Double Counter breached: 275,000 email addresses exposedSoftonic, 4h ago
  12. [12]Double Counter Data Breach: 275,000 Emails Published OnlineGameRiv, 9h ago

Background

  1. [13]List of security hacking incidents on Wikipedia
  2. [14]Discord on Wikipedia
  3. [15]BREACH on Wikipedia
  4. [16]Ransomware group BYOD claims data breach exposing Trump Mobile subscriber records FTMQ Security, 1h ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 16 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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