Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas within the Southern District of New York on August 20, demanding that Microsoft and Discord determine the individual or individuals behind the “CyberLeek” persona chargeable for this week’s Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay leaks. Take-Two desires extra than simply names and is asking for MachineGuid and MSA gadget identifiers, registration and last-login IP addresses, cellphone numbers, linked Google and Xbox connections, and OneDrive contents for each account that communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1. Both subpoenas, filed by Dale Cendali and Joshua Simmons of Kirkland & Ellis, set a September 4 deadline.
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MachineGuid is a Windows worth generated throughout set up and, in accordance with Microsoft’s personal help documentation, secure throughout {hardware} modifications until the OS drive is changed. Attachment A asks Microsoft to return that identifier for each account that was a member of, or communicated with any of the three listed Discord servers between June 1, 2026 and the current, along with the three handles named within the filings.
The Discord subpoena names three servers: Ødyssey.gg (guild ID 1517326120867991592), “! Odyssey” (1127436882800816149), and DarkViperAU (268280696601051136). The Microsoft subpoena describes the primary of these as a cheat neighborhood and labels it the “operator’s home.” It additionally calls for gadget telemetry the place sure “tool/file artifacts” had been current on a system, although no checklist of these artifacts seems wherever within the exhibit.
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Take-Two’s petition directs the Microsoft subpoena to the corporate as GitHub’s service supplier, not because the operator of Xbox or OneDrive. The predicate takedown discover, filed as an exhibit, was despatched on August 19 by Take-Two IP paralegal Alex Aviles to GitHub’s copyright tackle over a single repository, zyrexdz/cyberleek-leak-research. It states that the repository “must be completely disabled, there are no remedies to rectify this clear case of infringement.” At the time of writing, the GitHub repo is public with almost 500 stars, greater than 30 forks, and a commit pushed at 16:18 UTC.
Discord account and server IDs encode their creation time, and decoding the IDs within the filings dates the CyberLeek account to January 10, 2019, and the DarkViperAU server to January 10, 2017. Australian creator Matthew “DarkViperAU” Judge, whose server the filings describe as an editors’ server, denied any data in a submit on X, writing “I don’t know anything.” The Ødyssey.gg server decodes to June 19, 2026, which is eighteen days after the beginning of the June 1 information window. The Discord petition additionally lists 1517326120867991592 as a consumer ID belonging to the deal with Surfer24k, whereas each subpoena attachments checklist the identical quantity because the Ødyssey.gg server ID.
A sixth gameplay video leak appeared on August 21, six days earlier than Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look premieres on Netflix. Rockstar’s dad or mum firm was itself hacked by ShinyHunters in April, whereas CyberLeek claims to have a full, working construct and has printed a manifesto attacking digital-only preorders.
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