Intel Documents Leaker Claimed He Worked On Military Base, Report Says

The alleged leaker was part of a Discord group named “Thug Shaker Central” made up of around “two dozen” men and boys who loved “guns, military gear and God,” the Washington Post reported, citing a teenage member of the invite-only chat server.

The leaker, who identified themselves as “OG,” began sharing transcripts of classified intelligence documents that they claimed to have gained access to through their job at a military base whose location they refused to disclose.

While OG’s initial posts were transcribed by hand, they later switched over to sharing photos of the documents.

The Post’s report notes that both the teenager and another member of the chat group who corroborated the details claim they know OG’s real name and the state he resides in but refused to divulge that information.

All the documents were posted in a special channel on the chat server called “bear-vs-pig” and could be accessed by users who were foreign nationals, including Russian and Ukrainian citizens.

The members of the chat server had agreed to keep the leaked documents to themselves, and did so for several months before one of the members shared them on another Discord server belonging to U.K.-based YouTuber “wow_mao.”