A Discord breach leaked 68,000 Australian IDs weeks before the age-verification law hit (expression.fire.org)
A Discord breach exposed government ID images, names and emails for 68,000 Australians just weeks before the country's under-16 social-media ban took effect in December 2025. Then Australia's own research found roughly seven in ten kids still on social media months later.
On the thread, a Google cryptographer argued the privacy loss is avoidable: anonymous credentials can prove you're over 18 without the verifier ever learning who you are, or correlating your visits. The counter from another corner: identifying yourself online is long overdue.
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