Video game chat group linked to Pentagon leak of U.S. intelligence files on Ukraine.

A batch of leaked Pentagon documents, including estimated casualties in the Bakhmut theatre of battle, was initially shared on the video game chat platform Discord in an effort to win an argument about the war in Ukraine. The documents were posted on several Discord servers before they appeared on public social networks. This is not the first time that an intelligence breach has been traced back to an argument about video games, with the vehicular combat simulation War Thunder becoming notorious for the sheer quantity of leaks linked to it. Intelligence agencies have been aware of the need to monitor gaming communities for some time.