Reports suggest sensitive US Military documents leaked via Minecraft Discord server

A recent outburst occurred as a Minecraft Discord server leaked sensitive US military documents linked to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The documents contained all sorts of sensitive information. Ranging from weapons inventory, and US personnel involvement, to fatality stats, and ally list.

As per Wall Street Journal‘s reports coming via Kotaku, the documents came to be posted through a small and contained Discord server. From there on, it spread to this supposed Minecraft Discord server. After that, it was just a wait of time before it got leaked to other massive social platforms like Twitter, 4chan, Telegram, etc.

Minecraft Discord server leaks sensitive US Military documents on Russo-Ukrainian War

It all began when a war propaganda post was made by a Discord user pertaining to the war, leaking more than 50 documents. Once the Department of Defence got involved with this matter, most of it either got flagged as ‘Top Secret’ or ‘Secret”.

Basically, in the Minecraft Discord server, an argument broke out regarding the Ukrainian War and the game. From there on, a distinct individual claimed that it is all a hoax and that nothing about this war is real.

To prove a point, a user posted all the sensitive documents to prove that everything about the war is real. At first, it was all taken as a joke until the officials started getting involved in the matter.

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A Discord spokesperson contacted Kotaku and said, “It is Discord’s highest priority to ensure a safe experience for our users. When we are made aware of content that violates our policies, our Safety team investigates and takes the appropriate action, including banning users, shutting down servers, and engaging with law enforcement.”

He also said, “Our dedicated Safety team uses a mix of proactive and reactive tools to keep activity that violates our policies of the service, including advanced technology like machine learning models, equipping and empowering community moderators to uphold our policies and Community Guidelines, and providing in-service reporting mechanisms.”

He added, “Our team also proactively takes additional measures based on wider platform trends or intelligence they receive.”

While this is a concerning matter, this is not the first time sensitive information pertaining to the Russo-Ukrainian War is leaked. Sometime earlier, the War Thunder forum also appeared to host such leaked documents during January of this year.