Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine

Analysis suggests top-secret documents were first shared on closed gamer chatrooms hosted by Discord

A damaging batch of documents leaked from the Pentagon appears to have been initially shared on the video game chat platform Discord in an effort to win an argument about the war in Ukraine, according to open-source intelligence analysts.

The bizarre provenance of the leak may seem unusual but it is far from the first time that a dispute between gamers has sparked an intelligence breach, with the overlapping communities causing problems for military and gaming platforms alike.

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