Discord—Spy.pet website scraped billions of messages from 620 million Discord users
A data harvesting website called Spy.pet scraped messages from 620 million Discord users across more than 14,000 servers, accumulating over 4 billion public messages between November 2023 and April 2024. The site sold access to the database to anyone including law enforcement, AI training companies, and individuals spying on contacts. Discord ultimately took action to shut down Spy.pet, but the incident highlighted vulnerabilities in Discord's platform security that allowed months of large-scale data scraping before detection.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Security | -against | secondary | -0.50 |
| User Privacy | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.322 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.57)× agency (negligent ×0.5)
Evidence (1 signal)
Spy.pet website harvested 4 billion messages from 620 million Discord users over five months
A data harvesting website called Spy.pet scraped messages from 620 million Discord users across more than 14,000 servers, accumulating over 4 billion public messages between November 2023 and April 2024. The site sold access to the database. Discord ultimately shut down the site but the scraping went undetected for approximately five months.