“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. With the forthcoming “cookie-pocalypse” threatening to reign havoc ...

Last week, Discord revealed that a security breach had exposed some of its users' personal information — including government IDs collected for age verification. At the time, the voice chat and ...

In 2025, it feels like cybercriminals are winning while the world's biggest data hoarders are losing. One by one, global giants are admitting they've been breached, from tech powerhouses like Google ...

Mac OS X uses user ID numbers -- not alphanumeric usernames -- to define user permissions. As such, it is a bad idea (from a security standpoint) to assign the same user ID to two different users, ...

Discord users are reeling in after the platform faced a significant data breach, exposing sensitive information of all. Popular communication platform has confirmed the incident involves a third-party ...

Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding my work at Lifehacker as a preferred source. On Friday, Oct. 3, Discord ...

Tea, an app designed to let women safely discuss men they date, has been breached, with thousands of selfies and photo IDs of users exposed, the company confirmed on Friday. Tea, an app designed to ...

Picture this: You fire up the app for your security camera and scroll through your feed, only to find videos from perfect strangers—and if you’re seeing someone else’s videos, there’s a chance other ...

Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain ...

Phones assign individual users IDs so that advertisers can better sell to them. The IDs are anonymous but, as usual, the data industry has found a loophole. Reading time 3 minutes A new investigation ...

The Discord logo on a smart phone, resting on a computer keyboard. - Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Last week, Discord revealed that a security breach had exposed some of its users' ...