Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of developer Rockstar Games, has launched legal proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to identify those responsible for leaking confidential Grand Theft Auto VI footage. The publisher filed petitions for subpoenas against tech giants Microsoft and Discord, compelling both platforms to hand over extensive user records and internal investigative files tied to the security breach.
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The subpoena directed at Microsoft targets a GitHub repository that allegedly hosted copyrighted GTA VI assets, including dialogue, artwork, and video clips. Take-Two is specifically seeking Microsoft’s internal investigative records concerning a primary persona known as “CYBERLEEK.” Concurrently, the legal filing against Discord requests full identifying information, including legal names, phone numbers, linked accounts, and media logs, for accounts named CYBERLEEK, CINEMATICROCKSTAR, and Surfer24k. The request also encompasses data from the !Odyssey Discord server and a server managed by prominent GTA V content creator DarkViperAU.
The legal escalation follows leaked footage that began spreading online on August 18. Despite aggressive copyright takedown notices issued by Take-Two, subsequent video uploads surfaced online, suggesting the perpetrators may hold a working development build of the game. The breach directly disrupts Take-Two and Rockstar’s planned marketing timeline, which included an exclusive “extended look” at GTA VI set to broadcast via a streaming deal with Netflix on August 27.
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This marks the second severe leaks crisis facing GTA VI. In 2022, an 18-year-old member of the Lapsus$ hacking collective leaked early gameplay footage after breaching internal systems using an Amazon Fire TV Stick in a hotel room. Following a psychiatric evaluation that deemed him unfit to stand trial, a judge sentenced the hacker to an indefinite hospital order.
