NEW YORK, Aug. 22 -- Whoever leaked two GTA 6 gameplay clips and a world map to the internet last week may have felt the relative safety of an anonymous username. That assumption is now the subject of federal legal demands reaching into the servers of two of the most powerful technology companies on the planet.

Take-Two Interactive, the publishing parent behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, has subpoenaed both Discord and Microsoft in a court-backed search for the person or people responsible for the August leak, according to Engadget. The legal escalation moves the matter well beyond the standard round of DMCA takedowns that followed the leak and into territory where the law may compel the platforms themselves to cooperate.

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