GTA 6 leaker hunt is on, as Rockstar owners Take-Two file subpoenas asking Microsoft and Discord for records

Well, the pursuit has begun. Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two are aft the individuality of the hacker oregon hackers down this week's GTA 6 leak. Having spent a fig of days swatting clips with takedowns, portion the leakers dumped much and much crossed the net, Take-Two person filed aggregate subpoenas successful national territory tribunal asking Microsoft and Discord to stock records related to accounts which person been progressive successful posting and sharing the leaks.

As archetypal reported by Kotaku, a subpoena filed with the Southern District Court of New York connected August 20th cited "copyrighted material" which "includes but is not constricted to audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, oregon different originative elements". "Take-Two, done its counsel of record, has submitted a sworn declaration confirming that the intent for which the DMCA subpoena is sought is to get the individuality of an alleged infringer oregon infringers, and that specified accusation volition lone beryllium utilized for the intent of protecting Take-Two’s rights...," it continued.

The subpoena requests "all interior Microsoft concern records and investigative records associated with Microsoft’s interior probe of the ‘cyberleek’ persona capable to place the user(s), person(s) and/or entity/ies associated with that persona" by September 4th. Cyberleek, of course, is the grip the idiosyncratic oregon persons down the latest leak spell by.

Meanwhile, Discord person been asked for "all identifying accusation associated with each idiosyncratic accounts that are/were members" of a circumstantial database of servers betwixt June 1st and now. When it comes to accounts which extremity up successful their crosshairs, Take-Two are hunting for info similar relationship IDs, registration emails, registration and last-login IP addresses, telephone numbers, linked connections similar Google oregon Xbox, immoderate associated instrumentality identifiers, and immoderate contented related to Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar oregon Cyberleek connected OneDrive accounts.

One of the Discord servers listed reportedly belongs to Australian GTA YouTuber and streamer Matthew Judge, who goes by the grip DarkViperAU. "I americium confused," Judge wrote successful a tweet. "I did accidental helium can't thrust aggregate times, truthful possibly I caused him to constitute 'Cyberleek can't drive' connected the astir caller clips? Maybe helium visited my Discord, I dunno. Rockstar hasn't emailed me, I fishy if they thought I knew thing personally they would bash so."

As of writing, Rockstar and Take-Two stay yet to remark publically connected this latest GTA 6 leak. For america regular folks, the harmless attack is to springiness immoderate leaks a wide berth, oregon astatine slightest refrain from downloading files claming to beryllium leaked GTA 6 builds.