The GTA 6 Leak Saga May Be Over — the Money Trail Shows Where It Went

Netflix released Grand Theft Auto VI’s Extended Look trailer on August 27, sparking global fan frenzy just hours after the leaker behind the game’s stolen footage quietly cashed out.

The 26-minute preview, produced by Rockstar Games, showed the protagonists, Jason and Lucia, navigating Leonida’s open world through chases, shootouts, and everyday scenes at home.

Netflix’s Trailer Capped Months of Leaks and Speculation

The special showed Jason and Lucia working through missions across Leonida, including a trap house drug bust and a job for nightclub owner Boobie Ike, with players able to switch between both protagonists mid-mission.

Netflix held an exclusive six-hour window before Rockstar released the same footage for free on YouTube and the official GTA VI site at 9 p.m. ET. Rockstar also issued guidance to creators on X, allowing reaction content and livestreams from the moment the special aired, but asking fans not to simply repost the raw video without commentary.

The stakes around viewership were unusually high. GTA VI’s second trailer, released in May 2025, pulled in 475 million views across platforms within 24 hours, a launch-day record that beat Deadpool & Wolverine.

The first trailer alone drew 93 million YouTube views on its opening day. GTA VI remains set for a November 19 launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, priced at $79.99, capping more than 13 years of anticipation since GTA V’s release.

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See the next evolution in the groundbreaking Grand Theft Auto series.Watch Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look. Now on Netflix: https://t.co/VCJ6pfo51M pic.twitter.com/KqpCjOSgDF

— Netflix (@netflix) August 27, 2026

That long wait fueled an unauthorized leak campaign that dominated headlines for over a week. An anonymous figure known as CyberLeek posted 15 clips watermarked with a Solana token called CYBERLEEK, urging viewers to buy in with messages like higher market cap means more leaks.

The Leaker Dumped Tokens Hours Before the Official Reveal

On-chain investigators, including a GTAForums researcher known as Vice Cit, tracked roughly $268,000 moving out of CYBERLEEK’s transaction-fee pool in the hours leading up to Netflix’s premiere.

“The money was then divided up between 4 transactions and sent to various wallets that ultimately ended up in three different places; KuCoin, CCE.Cash, and there are some still sitting in various wallets that haven’t moved yet,” Vice Cit reported.

CYBERLEEK’s price collapsed as the withdrawals surfaced. The token now trades at $0.004595, down 54% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap of roughly $3.33 million, according to CoinGecko data.

That leaves it 86.8% below its all-time high of $0.03436, reached on August 23. The leaker had earlier burned 270 million unsold tokens, a move researchers say was meant to build trust before the final cash-out.

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Rockstar addressed the saga directly in a statement, calling the leaks heartbreaking for the team and asking fans to wait for the official launch rather than let stolen footage shape their expectations. Take-Two has separately secured subpoenas against Discord, Microsoft, and X, seeking to identify whoever operated the CyberLeek persona.

Analysts project GTA VI could generate between $3.3 billion and $5.2 billion in global sales during its launch week, according to CyberScoop, with Take-Two guiding toward $8 billion to $8.2 billion in fiscal 2027 bookings tied largely to the title.