“ARC Raiders landed in hot water after computer engineer Timothy Meadows discovered the game was silently logging players’ private Discord direct messages to a plain text file stored locally on their PC — along with Discord bearer authentication tokens that could potentially allow unauthorized access.”
Im sorry, the fuck what?? Thats insane, what possible reason could they have for doing that.
This was apparently people who linked their Discord in game, but still absolutely wild and unforgivable. Absolutely insane.
I found a Kotaku article for it too: Arc Raiders Gets Emergency Hotfix For Discord Privacy Issue
Additionally, a full Discord Bearer authentication token was found stored in the same log file
From https://timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-discord-sdk-data-exposure/
What the actual fuck…..
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Apparently they had a feature in game that you could link your Discord and respond to your DMs from within the game….
and they logged EVERYTHING, not just the ones you interacted with.