Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data
by Kotaku
Kotaku— Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected to that repository have been banned and the company is considering legal action. According to an April 26 404 Media story, Spy Pet had been trawling roughly 14,000 Discord servers for a few months now, collecting tons of...
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