Leaked documents may have origin in chatroom for gamers

FILE - A display Discord stands at the company’s booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on the social media platform popular with gamers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers.