Two Bay Area chat and gaming companies are being sued for allegedly facilitating child sexual exploitation and abuse. The suit claims San Mateo-based Roblox and San Francisco-based Discord allowed ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died by suicide after allegedly being targeted by “an adult sex predator” posing as a child on the platforms. A wrongful death ...

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SAN MATEO, California (Gray News) – A family in California is suing Roblox and Discord after they say the online platforms failed to protect their 10-year-old daughter from being abducted by a ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

Popular California-based web platforms Roblox and Discord are facing renewed scrutiny from tech experts and parents following a series of high-profile child exploitation cases, including unlawful ...

A woman from the western Upper Peninsula is suing the online gaming platform Roblox and the makers of the messaging app Discord, alleging the companies’ negligence allowed her to be groomed and ...

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A dozen malicious PyPi packages have been discovered installing malware that modifies the Discord client to become an information-sealing backdoor and stealing data from web browsers and Roblox. The ...