Officials are on the hunt for the person behind the recent leak of Grand Theft Auto VI. New documents from the responsible US federal court reveal that Take-Two Interactive is taking its legal action up a notch. The parent company of developer studio Rockstar Games has filed for another court subpoena to force the operator of messaging platform Discord to hand over targeted user data. In the legal complaint, the publisher’s legal team emphasized that the internal investigation surrounding the so-called leak group “CyberLeek” is currently ongoing extremely dynamically and is progressing rapidly.
Compared to the first wave of information in mid-August 2026, which saw Take-Two make extensive data requests to platforms such as Microsoft, X, and Discord, the new app is aimed at a very specific target group. According to court documents, the company requested the disclosure of identity and telemetry data for two specific Discord accounts, including a newly identified user and a previously recorded profile owner. Publishers also need access to a deeper data history of the affected server community.
A key detail in the current court application is the required confidentiality: Take-Two explicitly requested that the new subpoena be kept secret. Lawyers argued that public inspection would reveal highly sensitive details of the investigative strategy. The purpose is to prevent suspected copyright infringers from being warned in advance and potentially deliberately deleting or hiding evidence, chat logs, or account data.
The fact that the search measures are working is illustrated by a parallel development: Take-Two has now officially withdrawn its application for a court subpoena against the video platform YouTube. The reason given was that the new findings made the request for this special data unnecessary as investigators’ focus had been narrowed to the remaining core pipeline.
Prior to this, unfinished game scenes and details of this highly anticipated open world blockbuster had appeared on the Internet many times under the alias “CyberLeek”. The court will decide in the coming days whether Discord must comply with the court’s request and transmit the required inventory data and IP addresses to the organization.
