Twitch star Matthew "Mizkif" shared the harrowing news that his Discord server with more than 55,000 members was hacked recently, which led to thousands of fans' accounts getting compromised.
The streamer uploaded a 12-minute video on YouTube titled I Got Hacked. In the video, he explained the matter in-depth and requested that his fans on the Discord server immediately reset their passwords and credentials to secure their accounts.
The streaming sensation revealed that he received an urgent call from his manager Nick "syn4ack" stating that "something terrible" had happened. Nick told him that Twitch content creator Lacari's Discord account had been hacked.
Matthew mentioned that Lacari owned the entire Discord server and had administrative privileges:
One True King's co-founder spoke about what the hacker ended up doing to his Discord server and added:
Matthew said that the bot spammed hundreds of messages about another Discord server:
The hacker on the other server known as Night Bar claimed that they had partnered with Mizkif and would be gifting Discord Nitro Classic subscriptions to their members upon reaching more than 55,000 members.
The Austin, Texas native pleaded with his fans to change their password if they had clicked on the malicious link, since the link apparently stole a unique Discord token from any account that clicked on it.
To resolve the issue, Mizkif's manager told him to ban Lacari from the Discord server and continued the conversation further and said:
In the end, Mizkif was able to get in touch with Lacari and told him to change his password immediately. Lacari then changed his password, and everything went back to normal as the Discord server was reset by the moderators.
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