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The persona thing is related to this

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/discord-cuts-ties-peter-thiel-080200136.html?guccounter=1

Nearly 2,500 accessible files were found sitting on a U.S. government-authorized endpoint, researchers said on X. The files showed Persona conducted facial recognition checks against watchlists and screened identities against lists of politically exposed persons.

In addition to verifying a user’s age, researchers found Persona performs 269 distinct verification checks, including screening for “adverse media” across 14 different categories such as terrorism and espionage. It then assigns risk and similarity scores to user information.

And the information was openly available. “We didn’t even have to write or perform a single exploit, the entire architecture was just on the doorstep,” wrote the researchers in their blog, adding they found 53 megabytes of data on a Google Cloud server connected to Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). The researcher believed it to be infrastructure associated with a government verification system, pointing out the accessible files included evidence of Persona tagging “reports with codenames from active intelligence programs.”