Top Call of Duty Leaker TheGhostOfHope Halts Leaks After Activision Legal Demand

TheGhostOfHope announced on X that "Activision has legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information related to Call of Duty/Activision and I am complying with their demands," adding he will "still stick around and chat about Official Call of Duty info and anything not related to leaks/confidential information." Multiple outlets reproduced that post and The Verge noted he closed with "Cheers for these past few years," while GamesRadar reported his profile now denotes "retired."

GamesRadar, The Verge and IGN reproduce a March 4, 2026 timestamp for the post; Dexerto places the announcement on March 3, and Kotaku reports the legal-demand message arrived "roughly six hours after" an earlier Hope tweet criticizing Activision. The discrepancy in reporting on the exact date has not been reconciled in the published excerpts; outlets agree only that the post and the compliance claim appeared this week on Hope's X account, @TheGhostOfHope.

Hope is a long-running, prominent Call of Duty insider whose track record of scoops and rumors spans roughly five years, Kotaku reports. The Verge called him "one of the most trusted leakers for Call of Duty," Dexerto said he "revealed a number of big-time collabs, as well as details about new games," and IGN cited a recent Hope claim that an Xbox delay had "hurt" Call of Duty marketing plans for Modern Warfare 4. IGN also reproduced an earlier Hope comment about PR strategy: "Whoever at COD PR came up with denying almost any rumor put out by anybody besides datamined stuff is a genius," he wrote, in context of Activision denials.

The official Call of Duty X account replied publicly to community discussion of Hope's post, saying, "Even when leaks are wrong, they still hurt the people building the game and mess with player expectations." GamesRadar and IGN show the reply prefaced with "Nah." in the thread; GamesRadar also noted YouTuber Tdawg asked if Hope had been "right about everything?" and that the Call of Duty account was responding to that line of questioning. Kotaku adds the legal move "immediately spurred a wave of speculation regarding its timing."

Coverage across Kotaku, GamesRadar, The Verge, Dexerto and IGN characterizes Activision's action as a legal demand or cease-and-desist-style request; none of the excerpts reproduced a copy of any legal letter or specified the sender, the format of the demand, or any threatened penalties. Sources uniformly report that Hope wrote he is "complying with their demands" and will stop leaking confidential information.

Hope's shift from leak posts to discussing only "Official Call of Duty info" ends a visible phase of his reporting on Call of Duty rumors, but it leaves several unanswered specifics: the exact timestamp of his post, the text or signatory of the legal demand, and whether Activision intends further legal steps. For now, the announcement, his "retired" bio on X and Activision's public reply mark a clear pause in one of Call of Duty's most visible leak pipelines.