Rockstar Subpoenas Microsoft and Discord Over GTA 6 Leak

Rockstar Games isn’t treating its latest leak as a one-and-done PR problem. According to Variety, the studio has subpoenaed both Microsoft and Discord, seeking data that could help identify the person or people responsible for leaking roughly 90 early development videos of GTA 6.

The move follows Rockstar’s public confirmation that the leak stemmed from a network intrusion, in which the company says an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from its systems. Subpoenaing two of the platforms most commonly tied to file-sharing and community discussion around leaks — Microsoft (which operates services tied to file storage and communication) and Discord (a hub where leaked content frequently circulates first) — signals Rockstar is pursuing a legal, not just technical, response.

This is a familiar playbook for the industry, though the scale of GTA 6’s profile makes it higher stakes than most. Legal requests like these are standard tools when a company wants platform providers to hand over account or usage data tied to specific activity, rather than relying solely on internal security investigations.

Rockstar has been clear that it doesn’t expect the breach to affect GTA Online’s live service or the game’s development timeline, with the November 19 release date still standing. But the subpoenas make clear the company isn’t simply moving on — it’s actively working to trace how the intrusion happened and who was behind the leak, even as it keeps development on schedule.

Expect this legal process to play out mostly outside public view, with updates surfacing only if court filings become public or Rockstar chooses to comment further.