A $30 million demand
The group that has spent two months leaking Grand Theft Auto 6 footage now says it will release the whole game, and it has named its price: a $30 million market cap for its own memecoin. In a notice posted on its website on October 10 and quoted in full by Kotaku, Cyberleek promised a build with “full story mode, played to the end, credits and all” once the coin hits that figure.
There’s an off-ramp, supposedly. “Take-Two gets one way out: physical disks and a public apology,” the notice says. That’s the same grievance Cyberleek has claimed since August, when it framed its first clips as a protest against Rockstar selling GTA 6 digitally rather than on disc. The demand and the coin now arrive together, and only one of them has a number attached.
The coin is the part worth watching. According to IGN’s reporting, relayed by GamesIndustry.biz, Cyberleek’s token sat at a $3.8 million market cap before the warning and climbed to $5.7 million once it spread on social media. That’s still nowhere near $30 million. Kotaku also points out that the account went quiet in late August after appearing to pull about $250,000 out of the same coin, which promptly crashed, and calls the new threat “round two of the rug pull.” Put plainly, a leak threat that pays off only if strangers buy in looks a lot like a sales pitch.
Whether there’s a full build behind it is a separate question, and nobody outside the group can answer it. This week’s dump, roughly 25 minutes of gameplay, appeared to use a debug mode, which strengthens the theory that Cyberleek has a working copy of some kind. Insider Gaming notes that many viewers think the footage comes from an older build, and that the threat carries no deadline. It also declined to link Cyberleek’s site, citing possible malware. That’s a fair warning for PC players in particular: GTA 6 launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S only, so anything offered as a downloadable PC version before then should be treated as bait.
Rockstar has been here before, at a much larger scale. In September 2022, a hacker posted 90 clips of early GTA 6 footage, and the hacker behind it, Arion Kurtaj, faces a retrial starting November 9. This time Take-Two went to court quickly: in August it subpoenaed Discord and Microsoft for member data on servers tied to Cyberleek, and it followed with a separate DMCA subpoena to X covering the group’s accounts. Neither company has said publicly what, if anything, it handed over.
Rockstar’s last public comment on the leaks came in August, when it called them “heartbreaking for our team” and asked players to wait until November 19. Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two had commented publicly on the new threat as of Monday, and there’s still no physical edition announced. Kurtaj’s retrial starts ten days before launch, which means GTA 6’s release month will have a leak case in court whether or not Cyberleek follows through.
