If you use Discord, you need to know that your public activity, including messages and voice channel data, is reportedly being scraped by a third-party service and sold online for what amounts to pocket change, as reported by 404 Media.
This is a massive violation of user privacy, and it’s happening thanks to an online service called Spy Pet. This operation is reportedly scraping data from over 10,000 servers across Discord, accumulating an unbelievable amount of information. The worst part? They’re selling your entire digital life for as little as $5 if you want the bulk data via cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Monero. If someone just wants to look up a specific user, they can apparently do that for about 10 cents.
The massive scale of this operation means Spy Pet claims to have amassed data from over 600 million users and 3 billion messages. While those huge numbers haven’t been independently verified, reports indicate that the service definitely works as advertised, successfully allowing people to purchase the scraped data. This isn’t anything like a public archive, but a black market of sorts for stolen data.
Spy Pet is essentially turning Discord’s fragmented platform into a single, easy-to-target database
Usually, if you post in a thousand different servers, someone would have to join all those servers just to track your activity. Spy Pet aggregates everything you’ve ever posted into one convenient location for anyone who pays. They’ve reportedly scraped communities centered around huge games like Minecraft, Among Us, and Runescape, alongside various cryptocurrency servers.
This service is selling your information to two primary types of buyers: law enforcement agencies and organizations looking to train AI systems. While law enforcement might not care about your Minecraft memes right now, you definitely didn’t expect the police to be scrutinizing your server activity. The same goes for AI companies. They’re running out of fresh internet data to train their models on, so they’re resorting to scraping data from places like Discord.
Your private direct messages (DMs) between other Discord users appear to be safe. Spy Pet is only scraping the messages you’ve posted in public servers and voice channels. Anyone who joins a public server can already see everything you post there and could theoretically pull that data themselves. The difference is that Spy Pet is scraping tens of thousands of servers and making it incredibly easy to see all your activity for a tiny fee. Plus, they’re selling it to third parties you never consented to.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do about the data that’s already been scraped. Spy Pet doesn’t seem interested in removing anything already on their servers.
Published: Feb 13, 2026 03:30 pm