Opening with:

> Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesperson Nu Wexler tells The Verge.

Then a big PR quote, letting a potential wrongdoer further spin it.

Then closing with:

> In its announcement last week, Discord said that information like names, usernames, emails, the last four digits of credit cards, and IP addresses also may have been impacted by the breach.

This is awful corporate PR language, not journalism, on a big story about probable corporate negligence resulting in harm to tens of thousands people.

Here's the bare minimum kind of lede I expect on this reporting:

Discord may have leaked sensitive personal information about 70,000 users -- including (but not necessarily limited to) government IDs, names, usernames, email addresses, last 4 digits of SSN, and IP addresses.

I'm ready to block both Discord and The Verge.

Even if a service doesn't have it in their TOS that they sell it to 3rd parties, they might do it anyway, or there will, sooner or later, be a breach of their poorly secured system.

To make it clear - I don't particularly blame any one corporation, this is a systemic issue of governments not having/not enforcing serious security measures. I just completely dropped the expectation of my information being private, and for the very few bits that I do actually want to stay private, I just don't, or allow anyone to, digitalize or reproduce them at all in any way.

I wish breaches like this would cause people to reconsider their choices but sadly, it's unlikely most users will move.