GTA 6 leak hunt could expose data belonging to thousands of Discord users
Brief
Someone leaked footage of the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 this month, and the game’s publisher badly wants to know who. It’s after a range of data about members of three Discord servers going back to June 1 this year in a bid to nail the perpetrator.
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind the GTA series, hit Microsoft and Discord with a subpoena on August 20. It’s demanding IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox accounts, and OneDrive contents of certain server members.
It’s also after their MachineGuid values and Microsoft account device IDs, which identify individual Windows installations and devices that access Microsoft services, respectively.
An account calling itself CyberLeek started publishing game footage on August 17 and also revealed some of the game’s map. It claims ideological motives, publishing a manifesto with three commandments.
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GTA 6 leak hunt could expose data belonging to thousands of Discord users
Someone leaked footage of the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 this month, and the game’s publisher badly wants to know who. It’s after a range of data about members of three Discord servers going back to June 1 this year in a bid to nail the perpetrator.
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind the GTA series, hit Microsoft and Discord with a subpoena on August 20. It’s demanding IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox accounts, and OneDrive contents of certain server members.
It’s also after their MachineGuid values and Microsoft account device IDs, which identify individual Windows installations and devices that access Microsoft services, respectively.
An account calling itself CyberLeek started publishing game footage on August 17 and also revealed some of the game’s map. It claims ideological motives, publishing a manifesto with three commandments.
In brief, it wants publishers to stop publishing digital-only versions of games, stop making players pay extra to unlock single-player content shipped with the base game, and guarantee to preserve single-player modes forever.
CyberLeek warned game publishers:
“Behave, or be the next target.”
Around the same time, CyberLeek also launched a cryptocurrency token called $CYBERLEEK on the Solana network, which it promoted as a way for users to vote on what game footage would be leaked next.
Online commentators accused CyberLeek of using the GTA 6 leaks to pump the value of its cryptocurrency token. However, rather than selling its large holding, the person or people behind CyberLeek “burned” it on Sunday, effectively erasing the tokens. However, they can still collect trading fees from the toke , which reportedly reached up to $60,000 last week.
Who the sweep catches
Take-Two’s Discord subpoena covers servers including one belonging to Australian GTA 5 streamer Matthew Judge, better known as DarkViperAU.
GTA 6 leak hunt could expose data belonging to thousands of Discord users
Someone leaked footage of the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 this month, and the game’s publisher badly wants to know who. It’s after a range of data about members of three Discord servers going back to June 1 this year in a bid to nail the perpetrator.
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind the GTA series, hit Microsoft and Discord with a subpoena on August 20. It’s demanding IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox accounts, and OneDrive contents of certain server members.
It’s also after their MachineGuid values and Microsoft account device IDs, which identify individual Windows installations and devices that access Microsoft services, respectively.
An account calling itself CyberLeek started publishing game footage on August 17 and also revealed some of the game’s map. It claims ideological motives, publishing a manifesto with three commandments.
In brief, it wants publishers to stop publishing digital-only versions of games, stop making players pay extra to unlock single-player content shipped with the base game, and guarantee to preserve single-player modes forever.
CyberLeek warned game publishers:
“Behave, or be the next target.”
Around the same time, CyberLeek also launched a cryptocurrency token called $CYBERLEEK on the Solana network, which it promoted as a way for users to vote on what game footage would be leaked next.
Online commentators accused CyberLeek of using the GTA 6 leaks to pump the value of its cryptocurrency token. However, rather than selling its large holding, the person or people behind CyberLeek “burned” it on Sunday, effectively erasing the tokens.