Current Events > DOJ opens investigation into leaks of classified US military documents on 4chan

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/politics/pentagon-leaked-ukraine-documents/index.html

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the leaks of a trove of apparent US intelligence documents that were posted on social media in recent weeks. The investigation comes as new documents surfaced Friday covering everything from US support for Ukraine to information about key US allies like Israel, widening the fallout from the already alarming leaks. The Pentagon on Thursday said it was looking into the matter after social media posts of apparently classified documents on the war in Ukraine had emerged. They look real, a US official told CNN about the leaked documents.

Images of some of the documents which include estimates of Russian casualties and a list of Western weapons systems available to Ukraine were posted to the social media platform Discord in early March, according to screenshots of the posts reviewed by CNN. This shit was sitting in a Minecraft Discord server for a month and no one noticed, Aric Toler, a researcher at investigative outlet Bellingcat who traced the timeline of the posted documents, told CNN. Minecraft is a popular video game. It wasnt until this week that the leaked documents started to gain more attention after someone posted a portion of the documents to 4chan, a web forum popular with extremists, and then a Russian speaker posted an altered version of one of the documents on Telegram, Toler said. US officials believe someone altered that document to make the estimated number of Ukrainians killed in the war far higher than it actually is.