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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Namita Singh

Pentagon military documents leak may have started in gamer chatroom

AP

A major leak of classified US documents with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to growing proximity between UAE and Russia may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular among gamers.

On the Discord platform, which hosts real-time voice, video, and text chats, a discussion originally created to talk about a range of topics turned to the war in Ukraine, reported the Associated Press.

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