Overview
- Discord's marketing director Ryan Rigney wrote that the company has not yet been formally served with a subpoena from Take-Two and that it will evaluate any order's validity and scope before responding.
- Take-Two has obtained subpoenas seeking account and device telemetry from platforms to identify the source of leaked GTA 6 gameplay clips posted by a group calling itself Cyberleek.
- The subpoena text reported by outlets asks for granular data including account IDs, registration emails, registration and last-login IP addresses, phone numbers, linked connections, device identifiers, and OneDrive content.
- Microsoft's Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said the company is cooperating with Take-Two, while DMCA notices and platform takedowns have only partially slowed wide reuploads that have racked up millions of views.
- Security experts and users warn that the subpoena's breadth could sweep up information on thousands of unrelated accounts, and that decentralized hosting, rapid reposting, and fake downloads with malware complicate enforcement and user safety.