Cyberleek is leaking GTA VI gameplay, and charging crypto for the next clip
Since yesterday, someone calling themselves Cyberleek has posted clips that look like real GTA VI gameplay starring Jason. Rockstar hasn't confirmed anything, but Take-Two's copyright takedowns tell their own story.
Somebody got to play GTA VI before you did. Now they want you to pay to see it.
Since August 18, a person or group calling itself Cyberleek has been posting clips that look a hell of a lot like GTA VI gameplay. Jason is the star. In one he shoots hoops outside the house we know from the trailers. Three videos dropped on day one, and a fourth arrived today: a biplane cruising over a big city, almost certainly Vice City, with the radio playing.
The clip that made everyone sit up was the fifth. Jason empties a rifle into a wall and the bullet holes spell "LEEK". That's a signature. Outlets read it as a sign the leaker has, or had, access to a playable build, rather than footage scraped off some server. I'd put money on that one. You can't spell your name in bullet holes with a video you found lying around.
What the clips tell us: PC Gamer says the build may not be the full game. Lucia hasn't shown up in any of them. One has Tate McRae's "Sports Car" on the in-game radio, a song from January 2025, which points to a fairly recent build.
Rockstar hasn't said whether any of this is real. The clips keep getting pulled from social media on copyright grounds, and Insider Gaming says Take-Two keeps filing DMCA claims. PC Gamer calls that the only public response from Take-Two and Rockstar so far. Outlets take it as a hint that the footage is genuine. Honestly? So do I.
Where the crypto comes in
This is where it starts to stink. Cyberleek's website ran a poll where you voted with a $CYBERLEEK crypto token to choose the next leak: daytime car, nighttime car, daytime motorcycle or daytime plane. The plane won, and that's the Vice City flyover. At least one person paid $80. When PC Gamer wrote its piece, the token's market cap was $1.1M. Where does the money go? "A secret project," says the leaker. Sure it does.
There's a manifesto too, with three demands: no more digital preorders, no more selling DLC that already sits in the base game files, and mandatory offline fallback for single-player games. Eurogamer reports the leaks are said to be payback for GTA VI not coming on a disc and for the exclusive in-game content in the pricier Ultimate Edition. Half of any GTA forum would nod along to some of that. Then you attach a meme coin and lose them. Stop Killing Games already condemned the leaker and told its followers: "Do not send these people your money, no matter how much sympathy you may feel for their actions."
One more warning. Cyberleek says fake accounts are popping up on X, Discord and Telegram, and that it only ran an official website (since taken down) and a single Telegram channel. Eurogamer already had to correct a "full access" claim that came from an impersonator. So if some "Cyberleek" slides into your DMs with a wallet address, block the bastard.
Who's behind it? PC Gamer guesses Europe, pointing to the posting times, 2018 posts by a "Cyberleek" on the German forum szenebox.org, and a German provider hosting the website. PC Gamer itself calls this speculation and admits it's tenuous. I wouldn't bet a dime on it.
Rockstar's official gameplay reveal is still set for Thursday, August 27, according to PC Gamer, and Eurogamer says an "extended look" trailer is due on Netflix. That's eight days. You can last eight days without sending crypto to a stranger. Right?
