Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old military man, was indicted Friday by US federal justice for leaking a series of confidential US documents on the war in Ukraine. The young man, who faces years in prison, is suspected of having shared his information on a private online group of the social network Discord.
He is accused of posing a "very serious" risk to US national security, according to the Pentagon. The White House said Thursday that the United States was examining the "implications" of the leak "for national security"