Hacker Takeover Wreaked Havoc On Valheim Discord And Other Channels This Week

Discord lived up to its name earlier this week when hackers took over several developer channels, including Valheim’s, this Monday. They proceeded to wreak havoc on the communication platform by spamming the channels with disinformation, porn, as well as phishing and malware links that caused even more damage.

Valheim developer, Iron Gate Studios, managed to regain control of their channel and partially restore its contents on Wednesday morning. It’s member list seems to have been fully restored as well.

“As I’m sure none of you have missed, this server was the victim of some hackers the other night,” said community manager jMontilyet on the now-restored channel. “They should all have been rooted out by now, but they did unfortunately delete essentially all the public channels in the server. We’ll be working on restoring everything, and we thank you for your patience in the meantime.”

“Please remember to not click any links unless you are 100% sure that they’re legit,” she added. “We always communicate on multiple platforms, so if you see any announcement links in here it’s always a good idea to check our other platforms as well to make sure that the links have been shared there as well. Thank you again for your patience, and thanks to everyone who have sent us a kind word during all of this.”

Older channels, however, are struggling to do restore their channels to their pre-hack state with several years of information having been wiped within a few hours.