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Tom’s Hardware
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Aaron Klotz

MYSTERIOUS: Arc raiders was accidentally recording discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file vulnerability in sdk could log messages and credentials in plaintext - What They Never Told You

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A computer engineer has discovered a serious vulnerability within Discord's SDK that allows games to store Discord DMs between players in game logs without any security measures. System engineer Timothy Meadows published a blog post, revealing an incident where Arc Raiders was storing DMs between two gamers in plaintext to a local log file. Thankfully, at the time of writing, the problem has since been hotfixed by Embark Studios.

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