Discord says it has not yet been served with the subpoena Take-Two Interactive obtained in its hunt for the GTA 6 leaker, and that it will scrutinise the request before handing anything over.
I can share an update on this. Discord has not yet been served with a subpoena from Take-Two. When we do, we'll evaluate the validity and scope before responding.
On Friday, Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Take-Two's request to subpoena Discord for identifying information about users the Rockstar Games owner believes are tied to the leaks, IGN reported. The parallel subpoena aimed at Microsoft was granted on August 21. GamesIndustry.biz reported that Take-Two has since widened the effort to X, although IGN said that subpoena has yet to be signed off and "may simply be a formality."
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act petitions, filed on August 20, give Microsoft and Discord until September 4 to produce records. Take-Two wants "all identifying information" for every account that has communicated in a set of named Discord servers since June 1, 2026 — account IDs, registration emails, IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox connections, device identifiers, and any GTA, Rockstar or CyberLeek content in those users' OneDrive accounts. From Microsoft it also seeks "all internal Microsoft business records and investigative records associated with Microsoft's internal investigation of the 'CyberLeek' persona."
The servers named in the filing
- CyberLeek, CinematicRockstar and Surfer24k, plus the replacement handles cyberleek_west and surwest
- The Ødyssey.gg and Odyssey public brand guild communities
- The DarkViperAU editors' server, discord.gg/darkviperau
Dexerto noted that naming a server is not an accusation against its owner or members, and that neither filing names the person behind the leaks. Australian GTA creator Matthew "Matt" Judge, who streams as DarkViperAU, denied any involvement after seeing his server listed. "I don't know anything," he wrote. "That isn't my editors' Discord. There aren't even any clips of the leaks in either of my Discords."
Free speech and privacy group Reclaim The Net criticised the scope, noting that one named server has more than 107,000 members.
Copyright law is supposed to target infringement. Here, it's being used to hunt for identities. Take-Two is seeking DMCA subpoenas that could expose users who didn't leak or upload GTA VI footage, but who participated in conversations within Discord servers where the leak was discussed.
Microsoft has taken the opposite line to Discord. Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet said the company is "working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar Games to support efforts to protect creative works and intellectual property," and IGN reported that court documents indicate Microsoft had already opened its own CyberLeek investigation. Take-Two separately hit a GitHub repository hosting the material with a DMCA takedown on August 19, saying "the entire repository must be completely disabled."
Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has issued a public statement on the leaks, which have continued. Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look premieres on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, and the game is due on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19, 2026.