Pentagon Leak Went PUBLIC

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Top level Pentagon generals are scrambling to plug a dangerous leak. They don’t know who leaked or what already got out. They can’t say anything for certain about the scope of the damage. Likewise, nobody is sure whether or not it’s still happening. All anyone knows at this point is that one particular batch of information about the war in Ukraine has been passing around the hard-core gaming community for weeks. Officials only found out about it by accident. If one gamer hadn’t got into an online argument, only the illicit recipients of the classified information would know it had been leaked. Our allies are furious.

Big leak sprung on Discord

The Pentagon’s “damaging batch of documents” leak, which stunned Biden officials like an assault hammer between the eyes, “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.” Some open-source intelligence analysts uncovered some fascinating details.

While “the bizarre provenance” of the classified secret dump may seem unusual, this wouldn’t be the first time a dispute between simulation experts caused a national security scandal. Experts say that “the overlapping communities” create headaches for “military and gaming platforms alike.

The leak went public last week when a cache of military documents were exposed “showing estimated casualties in the Bakhmut theatre of battle.” The first thing the experts spotted is that there are certainly “two versions of those documents.

The one which caught everyone’s attention had been “crudely digitally altered to understate Russian casualties and overstate Ukrainian ones.” When they were passed around between “observers of the war,” it didn’t take long for federal agents embedded in the game chats to spot it. That’s exactly why they spend all day lurking in every game from Call of Duty to Bingo Drive.

The other version, with all the real figures, “stemmed from a leak to 4chan.” That’s where all the professional attack hackers mix with deplorable MAGA types under FBI influence and direction by the bureau.

The feds lurk all over the bulletin boards, from the shadows of their Q-Anon cover. While the clean set was swirling there, a second copy of the goods with the fudged figures was “being passed around pro-Russian Telegram channels.” Neither one of those was the original source.

Minecraft Earth Map

The experts trailed the leak back to discord and a server called “Minecraft Earth Map.” Ten of the controversial documents showed up “as early as 4 March, a month before they appeared on 4chan.” Lurking FBI trolls were shocked to watch as a major scandal unfolded.

After a brief spat with another person on the server about Minecraft Maps and the war in Ukraine, one of the Discord users replied: ‘Here, have some leaked documents‘ – attaching 10 documents about Ukraine, some of which bore the ‘top secret‘ markings.” It turns out that he had “found them on another Discord server, run by and for fans of the Filipino YouTuber WowMao, where 30 documents had been posted three days earlier.

Along with the known material included in the big leak were “dozens” of other unverified documents about Ukraine. The trail led digital sleuths even deeper into the cyber-labyrinth when they found “a third Discord server,” named “Thug Shaker Central.” That’s where they’re pretty sure “the documents were originally posted as early as mid-January.

Forensics teams note that “posts and channel listings show that the server’s users were interested in video games, music, Orthodox Christianity, and fandom for the popular YouTuber ‘Oxide.” That would be a “military-themed YouTube channel.” They’re starting to wonder which real intelligence worker is a heavy gamer.

Those who make a living tracking these things down point out that while “the scale and sensitivity of the leaks are significant, this is not the first time that an intelligence breach has been traced back to an argument about video games.” The “vehicular combat simulation” War Thunder in particular. One leak after another comes out in there.

The game, which has a reputation for accuracy, has 70 million players worldwide, leading to regular disputes about balance and accuracy – as a result, users have made breaches in at least 10 separate cases since 2020, frequently through posting classified documents about the capability of active weaponry in an effort to argue for the digital version of the vehicle to be improved.” This particular release might end up costing Ukraine their war. It also has our allies wondering if they can trust us to keep their secrets when we can’t even keep our own.

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