A man leaked US military secrets via Discord: he was the leader of young gun lovers

Own secret documents Pentagon have been filtered through discorda well-known communication platform for young people, especially gamers, and Washington Post traced the steps to find out on which channel it happened.

According to his report, the culprit of the leak was nicknamed og members of a private server on the platform and was the leader of a group of young people who “loved guns and God.”

What is known about the case

og openly stated to his members, who could only join the channel by invitation, that he worked at a military base and claimed to know high-ranking government secrets.

The group consisted of almost 30 people, all men who shared his passion for weapons, the army and God, says mail.

“He’s fit. He’s strong. He’s trained. Pretty much everything you can expect from some crazy movie,” said the member, who revealed the information to the publication.

Witnesses note that the man wanted the group to pay attention to every publication he made, such as transcripts he made about the whereabouts of politicians in the world and other military secrets.

But it was at the end of 2022, given the lack of attention to his posts, og began to share photos of real documents. It is noted that the server had up to 300 photos of classified documents, and it is assumed that at least 100 intelligence files are leaked through it.

bad hands

These documents began to go out of line discordcalled “Thug Shaker Central”, and fell into the wrong hands: Russian Telegram channels and 4Chan forums between March and April of this 2023.

in own Discord, reports began to reach gamers gathered on the youtuber’s servers or games such as mine craft.

By the time this case became known in the US media, og He asked all channel members to remove the information he shared. The witness claims that the rest of the participants were sad because of this incident and because of the separation from their leader.

discord “cooperating with the police” while US officials find out how much classified information was actually revealed.

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