A significant incident has been recorded in the gaming industry involving the release of gameplay materials for Grand Theft Auto VI. An operator using the pseudonym Cyberleek posted a series of videos and issued a public statement to the developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive. According to industry publications Mashable and GamesIndustry.biz, the incident occurred just days before the project's expanded showcase, scheduled for August 27, 2026, on the Netflix platform.
Timeline of the Material Release
Unlike isolated screenshots from previous years, the current leak features continuous gameplay recordings featuring one of the main characters, Jason Duval. According to the list provided in the sources, the series includes five videos: «Basketball» (a street basketball mini-game), «Random 1» (free driving and hand-to-hand combat), «Taser» (mechanics for disarming security guards), «Junkies» (the Zombix medication interface with tolerance mechanics), and «Plane» (flying a small aircraft over the Vice City bay followed by shooting at a brick wall).
Technical Authentication of the Recording
Tom's Hardware noted a word, «LEEK», etched into a wall by bullet holes in real-time. According to the editorial assessment, the presence of such a dynamic inscription in the recording reduces the likelihood that the video is a compilation of previously created materials and indicates that the operator had interactive access to an executable build of the game.
Formulated Demands
In the circulated statement, the operator listed several conditions: public apologies to the community, refusal to release boxed editions without physical optical discs, a ban on blocking single-player content behind paid add-ons, and a refusal of early digital pre-orders, as well as providing content from expanded editions to buyers of the base version. In the event that these conditions are not met, the operator declared an intention to publish source files daily, including dialogue and environment data, and opened a crypto wallet to collect funds for creating, in the author's words, a «protective infrastructure».
Response from Take-Two and Rockstar Games
The legal department of Take-Two Interactive initiated the removal of the published content via the DMCA procedure on the platforms X, Reddit, and YouTube. According to available information, this is already the fourth incident related to the project's security, following the events of September 2022, the trailer leak in December 2023, and the compromise of a third-party service in the spring of 2026.
Contradictory Data
Sources disagree on the assessment of the platform from which the leak was allegedly recorded. According to one version, the technical specifications extracted from the files correspond to the Xbox Series X version. According to another, the published recording could have been obtained from the PC version of the game. Thus, the question of the specific recording medium remains open at this time and requires additional verification.
Additional technical details extracted from the leaked files, including the Leonida state map, Zombix mechanics, and the honor system, are being covered in a separate article by the publication.
