The FBI used billing records from the chat platform Discord to help identify 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, the man who allegedly leaked hundreds of classified documents over the past few months, according to a new report from the Associated Press.
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guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC. - FBI agents on Thursday arrested a young national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets — including about the Ukraine war. US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest made"in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.
News of the Discord billing records was revealed in a Boston court on Friday, where Teixeria appeared to face charges of illegally removing and retaining classified documents, according to theBased on the government’s affidavit, it appears Teixeira used his real name when filling out Discord’s billing information.
“According to these records, the individual using the Subject Username is the administrator of Server 1, the billing name associated with the Subject Username is ‘Jack Teixeira,’ and the billing address associated with the Subject Username is a specific residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts,” theTeixeria was arrested at his home on Thursday for allegedly leaking the documents, which made their way to popular social media sites like Twitter and Telegram, where they first came to the...
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