The leaker who spent weeks embarrassing Rockstar Games this year is back with a new demand, and this one comes with a price tag.
Cyberleek claims it has a full build of Grand Theft Auto 6. It says it will release that build to the public if its cryptocurrency reaches a $30 million market cap. There’s apparently a way out: Cyberleek says it won’t release the build if Take-Two Interactive agrees to give GTA 6 a physical on-disc release and apologizes publicly.
Treat all of that as what it is. It’s an unverified claim from an anonymous leaker who has a coin to pump.
The coin is already climbing
As of this writing, $CYBERLEEK sits at a $6 million market cap. It’s been rising since the leaker’s offer went live. That’s still well short of the $30 million target, but the number is moving in the direction Cyberleek wants.
From day one, Cyberleek has called this a protest. Its stated grievance is that GTA 6’s physical release will be just a code in a box, and it believes gamers have the right to own physical media for what they play.
That argument is hard to take at face value when the leaks have been directly tied to cryptocurrency the leaker can profit from. Take away the physical media talk and you’re left with a big crypto scheme that happens to have GTA 6 attached.
Take-Two thought it was closing in
Earlier this year, Cyberleek spent weeks leaking footage of Grand Theft Auto 6. That included gameplay from early builds, story missions, in-game locations and more.
In late August, Take-Two had enough and went after the hacker. The publisher subpoenaed Discord and Microsoft for information about Cyberleek’s identity and whereabouts. When the leaker then went quiet for nearly a month, through all of September, it looked like the company had caught up to them.
It hadn’t. Last week Cyberleek came back with a new wave of leaks, this time showing nude versions of characters like Jason. Clearly it isn’t planning to disappear quietly.
Don’t count on getting a disc out of this
Take-Two is highly unlikely to meet the leaker’s demands, especially this close to launch. A physical disc and a public apology to the person who’s been dumping your unreleased game online would be a lot to give up at once.
So here’s where things stand: a $6 million coin, a $30 million finish line and a publisher with no obvious reason to give in. If Cyberleek isn’t bluffing, the rest of us can only sit and wait to see what happens.
