Videogame enthusiasts are scouring popular social-media platforms in the hope of finding classified U.S. military documents, turning the recent national-security crisis over leaked secrets into a global scavenger hunt.

The competition pits online users eager to see secrets against the U.S. government, which wants to keep those secrets off the internet. …

Some of the classified documents remain online, according to social-media posts viewed by The Wall Street Journal, and there are users eager to see them.

In servers on Discord where users—many of whom are teenagers—usually trade tips about surviving in apocalyptic videogames, some are now seeking a glimpse of top-secret government documents providing details about the war in Ukraine, U.S. spying on allies, and details of U.S. penetration of Russian military plans.

[And this is one reason why those secrets shouldn’t get invested in Air National Guard enlistees. It may take years to track down where all of this material went, and even then, we’ll have no way of knowing who has accessed and seen it. The costs could be enormous in sources, methods, and critical use. — Ed]