The GTA 6 leak campaign has turned from a consumer-rights manifesto into a paid drip-feed, and the group behind it is now telling fans to show up outside Rockstar Games and Take-Two offices.
Polygon reported that CyberLeek's most recent "nude town" leak came with a condition attached on top of the usual fan vote: "To show support, at least 10 gamers need to show up dressed as leeks in front of Take2/Rock* offices holding game discs during working hours." Its contact page now offers ad placements and custom-made gameplay for an undisclosed fee, and it released an earlier strip club clip only after supporters pushed the CyberLeek token to a $3 million market cap.
Takedowns have not stopped the spread: Polygon reported the group hosts its leak site on Arweave, a decentralised protocol that stores data permanently across miners, so it cannot be fully removed.
From manifesto to market cap
The leaks began on August 18 with gameplay clips and an image said to show the full map, accompanied by a manifesto demanding an end to digital preorders and to DLC already contained in base game files, plus mandatory "offline fallback states" so singleplayer games survive server shutdowns. "Publishers should beware," it concluded. "If CyberLeek can reach Rockstar, no one is safe." PC Gamer reported that a later clip, in which the leaker shoots the word "LEEK" into a wall, indicates access to a playable build rather than scraped footage.
GTAForums member Vice Cit, who said they studied digital forensics for a degree, traced the money: by their accounting the leaker spent roughly $29,000 setting up the token and website, recouped it on day one, and had made $40,000 to $60,000 in trading fees on volume of about $2.1 million a day. Vice Cit traced the funding wallet to KuCoin, a Seychelles-based exchange whose know-your-customer records authorities could subpoena.
Since day one of the leak I've believed that the motivation behind this was always money. The gamers rights messaging was just virtue signaling to gain public support from people who were upset about the loss of physical media.
The Stop Killing Games campaign, whose end-of-life demands the manifesto echoes, disavowed the group in a statement posted to Reddit.
Do not send these people your money, no matter how much sympathy you may feel for their actions. This is illegal, and frankly, we feel for everyone at Rockstar having to go through this ordeal again.
"Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us and does nothing to protect our right to keep using what we paid for," the campaign added, warning that the leaks risk "tarnishing the reputation of our communities and our chances to make change" and are already being raised negatively in its discussions with lawmakers.
Inside Rockstar, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported that leadership is angry a second major leak has landed despite the security tightening that followed the 2022 breach, including the abolition of remote work, and that staff are "frustrated and exhausted." Per Bloomberg, the studio still does not know how the material got out, and there are no plans to move the Netflix reveal on Thursday, August 27.