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But Discord has also had recent issues with user security sowing distrust.

In October, official ID photos of around 70,000 users that Discord had gathered from a previous age-verification partnership were likely leaked through a cyber-attack.

Discord reiterated on Tuesday that when it eventually does roll out a global age verifications system, no images used in the process will be stored.

Then, over the last week, online researchers found that Persona, another company Discord had partnered with in the UK for age verification, had left thousands of files exposed on the open internet.

Discord was quick to distance itself from Persona, saying the test it had done with that company was limited and now over.