It is not an exception that, especially in the case of military games, secret documents of military facilities reach the Internet, thanks to which players want to show their truth to the developers. However, the leaking of secret information was taken to the next level by the American Discord admin, who has now served 15 years behind bars.
Jack Teixeira worked as a member of the National Guard, specifically its intelligence division. This position allowed him access to classified documents that related to national security and secrets that involved Russia, China, Ukraine and Taiwan. Supposedly wanting to impress his friends and members of the “Thug Shaker Central” discord group, he uploaded a number of the aforementioned documents to the group.
One of the former classmates of this admin confirmed to the media that in addition to his interest in weapons and military topics in general, he also liked attention. He often did crazy things at school, so the general interest in these topics on his discord group should have excited him so much that he decided to gradually upload the documentaries.
In his attempt to hide the origin of the documents, he initially tried to transcribe the documents, but then simply took them and recorded them. As is usual on the Internet, members of this community began to spread the documents themselves on other Discord servers, but also on 4chan or Telegram. When Teixeira saw that he had lost control of the documents, he tried to delete all his accounts and destroy the document storage. However, due to the whole process, he obviously failed to cover his tracks and the FBI unit came to his house for him.
Teixeira subsequently received a plea deal that would “only” put him behind bars for 15 years, instead of the possible 60. Among other things, the court mentioned that the leak of the documents fundamentally undermined the security of the US and endangered the troops due to the content of the documents, which were supposed to talk about their location and movement. Thanks to the amount and degree of secrecy of these documents, it was supposed to be one of the largest leaks of US secret documents in history.
Some of the information that appeared in the 2023 documents was quite crucial and was picked up by the international media. For example, Teixeira was behind the disclosure of spying on the UN Secretary General, which Russian organizations contain American spies, or how Taiwan is prepared for a possible invasion from China.
Source: pctuning.cz