The guy who leaked Ukraine War plans on Discord got busted because of his Steam profile
The person responsible for leaking top secret US documents including Ukraine War plans that ended up on a Minecraft-related Discord server(opens in new tab) has been identified as Jack Teixeira, who according to The New York Times(opens in new tab) is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Teixeira was arrested earlier today, and is now in the custody of the FBI.
Teixeira allegedly shared the documents with members of his own Discord server, called Thug Shaker Central, a group of between 20 and 30 members who initially came together over shared interests in «guns, racist online memes, and videogames.» Most of the members of the group were teenagers, according to the report, who looked up to Teixeira as their leader.
BREAKING: Sky 5 was overhead as federal agents swarmed a Mass. home and detained a man amid the probe into leaked classified documents about the Ukraine war. https://t.co/5FCrFgz3QZ pic.twitter.com/cwdp4yWJLKApril 13, 2023
Interestingly, the Times report says secret documents were first uploaded to the Thug Shaker Central server «months ago,» accompanied by lectures on the importance of staying aware of world events. They didn't come to more widespread light until another member of the group posted a bunch of them to a different, more public forum; from there, as we learned last week, they ended up on Russian-language Telegram channels, 4chan, and a Minecraft Discord server.
One of the members of Thug Shaker Central, a 17-year-old who recently graduated from high school, told the Times that Teixeira wasn't trying to be a whistleblower, and that the documents he shared in Discord weren't meant to go any further. «This guy was a Christian, anti-war, just wanted to
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