Cyberleek’s Discord servers
Take-Two Interactive asked a federal court in the Southern District of New York on August 20 to order Discord and Microsoft to identify everyone behind three Discord servers connected to the leaker known as Cyberleek, who has been posting unreleased GTA 6 gameplay footage since mid-August.
The Discord subpoena covers anyone who was a member of the named servers going back to June 1, and it isn’t just asking for names. Take-Two wants each account’s ID, registration email, registration and last-login IP addresses, phone number, any linked Google or Xbox account, associated device identifiers, and any GTA-, Rockstar- or Cyberleek-related files stored in that member’s OneDrive. The Microsoft subpoena goes further still: it also asks Microsoft to turn over its own internal investigation records on the Cyberleek persona, plus device telemetry tied to a GitHub repository where leaked material surfaced. Both companies have until September 4 to respond.
Three servers are named in the filings: Ødyssey.gg, a public community called “! Odyssey,” and the editors’ server belonging to GTA streamer DarkViperAU. The “! Odyssey” server had around 5,600 members as of last week. DarkViperAU, whose real name is Matthew Judge, wrote on X that he’d been named despite having no connection to the leaks: “I don’t know anything. That isn’t my editors discord.” None of the three servers is accused of being where the leak originated, only of having members who might know who did.
Rockstar has been through this before, at a much larger scale. In September 2022, a hacker linked to the Lapsus$ group broke into Rockstar’s systems from a hotel room using only an Amazon Firestick and posted 90 clips of early GTA 6 footage along with the game’s source code, a breach Rockstar has said cost it roughly $5 million. That hacker, Arion Kurtaj, was sentenced to an indefinite secure-hospital order in December 2023. He was moved out of the hospital and into a standard prison earlier this year, ahead of a retrial scheduled for November 2026, the same month GTA 6 is due to launch.
Discord and Microsoft have both responded carefully. Discord marketing director Ryan K. Rigney wrote on X that the company hadn’t actually received the subpoena yet: “I can share an update on this: Discord has not yet been served with a subpoena from Take Two.” Microsoft, through Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet, said it’s “working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar Games to support efforts to protect creative works and intellectual property,” without addressing the scope of what’s being requested.
The Discord and Microsoft filings aren’t isolated, either. Take-Two has pursued the same DMCA subpoena process against Google and X over separate Cyberleek posts on those platforms this month. Whether any of it leads back to the leaker, or just collects account data on thousands of people who happened to be in the wrong Discord server, won’t be clear until the September 4 deadline passes.
