The source behind a leak of highly sensitive US government documents is a young gun enthusiast who first shared them on a social media group with racist and antisemitic currents, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The breach — which has sparked a criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice — includes classified information about Ukraine’s battle against invading Russian forces, as well as secret assessments of US allies.
Two members of a group on online social platform Discord told The Post that hundreds of pages of material had been posted there by a man who told them he worked on a US military base and brought the documents home with him. READ MORE