Old and busted: professional spies spending lifetimes infiltrating governments and using sophisticated spy thriller technology to get data out.
New hotness: some random gamer dude exfiltrating secret documents to a Discord chat called "Thug Shaker" to impress other random gamer dudes, then the documents leak to 4chan and a Minecraft forum.
Seriously though... this stuff shows just how hard it is these days to contain information if you are running any kind of organization at scale.
There's a long tradition on the War Thunder forums of gamers getting into arguments about the capabilities of military vehicles and trying to settle the argument by leaking classified documents
I gotta wonder what goes through someone's head when all the major news outlets are reporting a leak and you realize they're the documents you shared on discord.
The article I read said he went into a panic, and intended to go into hiding because he knew he screwed up big time, and was about to be hauled off to jail.
New hotness: some random gamer dude exfiltrating secret documents to a Discord chat called "Thug Shaker" to impress other random gamer dudes, then the documents leak to 4chan and a Minecraft forum.
Seriously though... this stuff shows just how hard it is these days to contain information if you are running any kind of organization at scale.