New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- After confirming data breach earlier in the month, Discord has now said that around 70,000 users may had their government ID photos exposed which were used by its third party vendor review age-related appeals. The platform which has over 200 million users globally had earlier said that a 'limited number' of users who had communicated with the company's customer support team were affected by the data leak.

The company also says that hackers did not access Discord directly but got access to the user data via one of the company's third-party customers service providers.

"Recently, we discovered an incident where an unauthorized party compromised one of Discord's third-party customer service providers. The unauthorized ...