Discord protection bot Double Counter hit by breach exposing around 1 million email addresses

By Vikki Blake · GamesIndustry.biz · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 19:15 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Double Counter, a service that protects Discord servers from raids and alt accounts, has suffered a data breach that exposed about 1 million email addresses, as well as Discord IDs and IP addresses for millions more users.

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