The leader of a private Discord server who allegedly leaked top-secret military documents has now been identified by “a trail of evidence” as Jack Teixeira, "a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard," The New York Times reported. US officials are now seeking to talk to Teixeira after days of searching for the leaker, including coordinating with Discord after the private server was deleted.
An earlier Washington Post report had identified the leaker as OG, a young man who was allegedly working on a military base while posting photos of hundreds of confidential documents for months on a private Discord server before US authorities caught on.
Members of the Discord server where the leak seemingly originated have been defensively protecting the target of the US manhunt—some of them teenage boys who told the Post that they wouldn’t reveal his true identity because they consider OG to be “family” and an “uncle.” These Discord community members told the Post that they had not yet been contacted by authorities.
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