Take-Two has court-ordered Discord and Microsoft records, and the request covers far more than the leaker

In mid-to-late August, Take-Two petitioned the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for DMCA subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord. The court granted them, and both companies face a compliance deadline of 4 September 2026.

(Outlets report the filing date variously as 18 or 20 August, depending on whether they are citing the petition or the issued subpoena. We are not going to pick one and present it as certain.)

Most coverage has framed this as “Rockstar hunts the leaker.” That is true, and it is also the least interesting part. The part worth your attention is how wide the request is.

What is actually being demanded

From Microsoft, records identifying the account behind the leak persona: registration details, IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Xbox and Google accounts, device identifiers, reportedly including MachineGuid and MSA identifiers, and material relating to Grand Theft Auto held in the associated OneDrive.

From Discord, identifying information for all user accounts that are or were members communicating with three named servers: account IDs, registration emails, IP addresses, phone numbers and linked connections. Reporting puts the window as everyone who communicated in those servers since 1 June.

That second one is the story. It is not a request for one person’s records. It is a request for the records of everybody who talked in three Discord servers over roughly three months, and by several accounts at least one of those servers is an ordinary working space for a well-known GTA content creator’s video editors, people with no connection to the leak whatsoever.

“Granted” does not mean a judge weighed the evidence

This is the most commonly misunderstood point, so it is worth being precise.

A DMCA subpoena under section 512(h) is not a normal litigation subpoena. It is issued by the clerk of the court on a properly completed request. No judge assesses whether the claim is strong, no hearing takes place, and the person whose data is sought is not there to object.

So “a federal court granted the subpoenas” is accurate, and it does not mean a court has found that anyone in those servers did anything wrong. It means the paperwork was in order.

Subpoenas of this kind can be challenged, a motion to quash is the usual route, and platforms sometimes narrow or resist requests they consider overbroad. Whether Microsoft or Discord will do that here is not yet known, and neither has said.

Take-Two does not appear to know who it is looking for

Per reporting from Bloomberg, Rockstar has not identified the person or group behind the leaks, and internally the priority is working out how the breach happened at all. The subpoenas are not the endgame of an investigation that has a suspect; they look like the opening move of one that does not.

If you were in one of those servers

We are not going to pretend to know exactly which servers are named, and we are not going to name them here, pointing an audience at them helps nobody.

What can be said generally: being a member of a Discord server is not an accusation, and it is not a crime. If your records are handed over, that is a disclosure of your data, not a finding against you. If you are genuinely worried about your own exposure, the right move is a lawyer in your own jurisdiction, not a forum thread. Nothing on this page is legal advice.

Why we still will not publish the leaks

Our position has not changed, and this makes it firmer rather than softer.

We do not host, link, embed or describe leaked GTA 6 material. Every image on this site is an official Rockstar press asset. The leaked map from a stolen development build does not appear here and will not. Our standards are written down.

Two reasons, and the legal one is second. The first is that leaked footage from an unfinished build is bad information. Rockstar has confirmed the clips are genuine, which makes them a verified source of material that may not resemble what ships on 19 November. We wrote about exactly this trap when Rockstar broke its silence.

What has not changed

Launch is still 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar did not move the Extended Look, did not move the date, and has said the game is nearly finished. The launch-week page has the dates and a readiness checklist.

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Court filings are matters of record, so this is labelled confirmed. Where a detail comes from press reporting of those filings rather than the filings themselves, it says “reportedly”, that distinction is doing real work in this article.

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Update, 1 September: it is not just Discord and Microsoft

Take-Two filed a second pair of DMCA subpoenas in the same court, a day after the first, aimed at X Corp. and Google, the latter covering YouTube. Reported filing dates vary between 18 and 21 August depending on whether an outlet is citing the petition or the issued subpoena; the two pairs are a day apart either way, and were filed by different law firms.

The X subpoena names three handles: @cyberleek_ar_io, @cyberleekario and @MrCyberLeek. The YouTube subpoena names three channels and one specific video. The demand is the same shape as before, account IDs, registration emails, IP logs, phone numbers, connected accounts, device identifiers, over the same window, 1 June to the present.

The part that should give you pause

The GTA community had already flagged those X accounts as impostors before the subpoena was filed. The person behind the leaks went as far as watermarking “CYBERLEEK DOES NOT HAVE TWITTER” onto later videos.

As TorrentFreak notes, the filing does not clarify whether Take-Two treats those accounts as the source or as people who copied the leaks. So the paperwork may be pointed at accounts that impersonated the leaker rather than at the leaker.

That is the same pattern as the Discord request, one step further along: a legal instrument that issues without a judge weighing any evidence, aimed at a widening circle of people who are, in several cases, demonstrably not the person Take-Two is looking for.

Reporting from Bloomberg still indicates Rockstar has not identified who is behind the leaks.