Late last year, a man Kelsey Diaz knew said he had seen her intimate photos online, but he refused to offer more information about it. She assumed he was lying to her.
This week, as the existence of an online server harbouring that material became more public, she learned that he wasn’t.
She and others who say they obtained the link and infiltrated an online Discord chatroom estimate thousands of intimate or sexualized photos and videos had been shared, potentially more. Discord is a social media platform that allows users to create private chat rooms only accessible by invite.
Diaz said she searched for her photos for an entire day, believing that she was safe. It was a “stab in the chest” when she found her photos.
“It was definitely a really icky feeling, especially because the photos that were on there … were never actually sent out to anybody,” …