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Spy Pet Scrapes Over 4B Messages from 10K+ Discord Servers for $5

Apr 17, 2024, 02:35 PM

A new report by 404 Media reveals that a website named Spy Pet is actively scraping data from over ten thousand Discord servers, affecting around 600 million users and harvesting over 4 billion messages. The service archives users' messages and activities, including their participation in voice channels, and offers access to this data for as little as $5. Discord is currently investigating the situation, prompted by findings that the scraping tool effectively tracks users' interactions across multiple servers.