Embark Studios' latest update for ARC Raiders isn't your bog-standard fixes or new content release. Instead, it's an update that the team rushed out the door this morning after a report from tech blogger and systems engineer Timothy Meadows pointed to an incident where two ARC Raiders players' private Discord DMs (direct messages) appeared in a game log file.
Per Meadows report, the game's Discord SDK captured private messages between two users and a Discord Bearer token. It was a massive over-extension of the data that Embark collects through ARC Raiders' Discord SDK, an issue that is thankfully now fixed after the update was pushed earlier today.
"The team is also working on a hotfix to address an issue where the Discord SDK logged excessive user information," Embark wrote in a message to players on the ARC Raiders Discord server. "Rest assured that your private and/or personal data was not sent outside your machine and Embark has not (and will not) review or keep such information. We will disable the Discord SDK logging and are conducting a deeper audit to ensure no further issues."
As to why this happened, according to Meadows, the problem arose from how the game's Discord SDK works. When you enable Discord integration with ARC Raiders, Embark uses the full Discord Bearer authentication to access your data. And, as Meadows puts it, "Rather than filtering sensitive events, the SDK logs everything it receives to disk." That's how private messages ended up in plain text in game log files.
Thankfully, it didn't take Embark long to push the fix and close this issue, and it's very unlikely that this happened due to any kind of malicious intent on the part of Embark Studios. But it is a reminder as to how careful we all need to be when it comes to our online security, and how much data is being collected by the platforms we use.
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About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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