The leaked US government confidential document was posted on Discord and spread to 4chan and Telegram & it also turned out that for some reason it contained a TRPG character sheet
In April 2023, it was
New Details on Intelligence Leak Show It Circulated for Weeks Before Raising Alarm - WSJ
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From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak - bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4chan-the-improbable-journey-of-a-us-defence-leak/
On April 6, 2023, the New York Times reported that a confidential document was posted on SNS about ``the secret plan of the United States and NATO to support the Ukrainian military''. The leaked document contained details such as the weapons supply plan, the strength of the Ukrainian army, and the pace of weapon consumption. Some of the information that is being disseminated includes those whose contents have been altered, but the US Department of Defense has acknowledged the leak of information, and it has become clear that genuine information is also included. .
In addition, as a result of scrutinizing the leaked information by the New York Times, it was also found that `` information obtained by intercepting communications within the Korean government '' was included. As a result, it has been pointed out that this information leak may develop into a major international problem, similar to the incident in which Edward Snowden exposed the ``interception of government communications by the US National Security Agency (NSA)'' in 2013. I'm here.
Leaked Documents Show Seoul Torn Between US Demands and Its Own Policy - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/world/asia/leak-pentagon-south-korea-ukraine.html
The leak of confidential documents was reported from April 2023, but it was around January 2023 that hundreds of confidential documents were leaked, and it was said that they were posted on the Discord server by a small number of members. About. After that, in March 2023, dozens of documents were posted to another server, and about 10 documents were reprinted to a large Minecraft-related server, which attracted a lot of attention.
After that, the confidential document shared on Discord was spread on the popular anonymous bulletin board '4chan' in the English-speaking world and the Russian SNS 'Telegram'. However, it is said that the document spread on Telegram has been ``modified in favor of the Russian side''.
In addition, some of the leaked confidential documents include those that do not appear to contain military information. For example, the following photos released by the news site Motherboard were included in a series of confidential documents, but if you look closely at the contents, parameters such as 'STRENGTH' and 'DEXTERITY' From what is written, you can see that it is some kind of TRPG character sheet. Jacqueline Marie Bryk , who works as a game designer, speculates that this character sheet is from a self-made game that combines ' Cthulhu Mythos TRPG ' and ' Fallout TRPG '.
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