A Minecraft Discord Is Casually Sharing Classified US Documents About Ukraine
Top-secret documents from the US Department of Defense have leaked online and are now being shared widely on social media. The documents reveal US intelligence on several allied nations, such as South Korea and Israel, as well as combat assessments for Ukraine. And strangely enough, these documents can be traced back to a very unlikely source: a Minecraft Discord server.
According to CNN, 53 leaked documents contain information from mid-February to early March that show weaknesses in "Ukrainian weaponry, air defense, and battalion sizes and readiness." The documents also reveal US knowledge of how far it has penetrated into the Russian Ministry of Defense as well as the Wagner Group. The source of the leak is unknown, but open-source intelligence firm Bellingcat (via IGN) has a pretty good writeup on where and when the leak first appeared online.
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While the larger leak that has been picked up by mass media outlets started in April on Russian Telegram channels, an earlier leak from March first started on Discord. Specifically, a Discord channel dedicated to recreating the entire planet called "Minecraft Earth Map."
As with leaks in other game communities, it all started with an argument. Two people were bickering over the Ukraine War, and then someone else casually came along and said, "Here, have some leaked documents."
That same user who casually dropped ten top-secret documents into a Minecraft channel later claimed to have found those documents on the WowMoy Discord server, a channel dedicated to a Filipino YouTuber. Bellingcat believes these documents were first obtained by a Discord community called "Thug Shaker Central" and date back to
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