Arc Raiders Gets Emergency Hotfix For Discord Privacy Issue

Arc Raiders Gets Emergency Hotfix For Discord Privacy Issue

A computer engineer discovered that the game's Discord integration was logging all user behavior on the social platform

Arc Raiders: Embark Collected Discord Direct Messages, The Studio Fixed It!

Embark Studios fixed a huge security breach, so at least the studio isn’t collecting Discord messages.   The latest update to Arc Raiders is not a typical patch or new content expansion. The team rushed it out yesterday morning after technology blogger and systems engineer Timothy Meadows pointed out an incident in which two Arc Raiders players’ private Discord direct messages appeared in a game log file. According to Meadows, the game’s Discord…

"We are providing guidance to developers" - Discord promises a fix and "additional protections" following discovery of Arc Raiders bug that stored users' private messages

Discord has responded to a recent data security issue that arose with Arc Raiders' Discord Integration, which was storing user's private Discord messages locally on their PCs.

Arc Raiders Was Recording Private Discord DMs

There's a reasonable expectation for privacy that comes with using direct messages, but no should ever count on that. That's what some players may be discovering now that they've learned that Embark Studios' Arc Raiders was recording and storing their Discord DMs.According to Insider Gaming, the issue was uncovered by computer engineer Timothy Meadows. He discovered that when Arc Raiders was linked to players' Discord accounts, it stored their p…