Arc Raiders bug was saving Discord private chats and login tokens in plaintext files

TL;DR: Users who recently played Arc Raiders with Discord open may have unknowingly exposed private conversations and Discord login credentials. The game was writing this information to a local log file, which could potentially be accessed by other software on the device and even attached to crash reports.

Developer Embark Studios has acknowledged that Arc Raiders' Discord SDK logged more user data than intended and issued a hotfix to address the problem. The studio says Discord logging has now been disabled while the team investigates to ensure no deeper issues remain.

Blogger Timothy Meadows published code from Arc Raiders' Discord integration showing that the game's log file contained unencrypted private conversations from the chat client. If a player sent direct messages to friends on Discord while the extraction shooter was running in the background, those messages were written in plaintext to a file on the user's machine ...