The company is looking for leaks ahead of GTA’s release in November.
Take-Two, parent company of developer Rockstar Games, is taking legal action to find the person responsible for leaking footage of Grand Theft Auto VIaccording to Kotaku. The company filed two subpoena motions in the Southern District of New York to compel Microsoft and Discord to hand over information Take-Two identified as being associated with the leak.
In Microsoft’s case, the company is seeking information related to a GitHub repository that allegedly hosted Take-Two copyrighted material, including “audiovisual content, illustrations, images, dialogue, or other creative materials.” The company specifically asks Microsoft to turn over “business and investigative records associated with Microsoft’s internal investigation into the ‘cyberleek’ persona.”
For Discord, Take-Two requests information about several different accounts and servers, including Discord users CYBERLEEK, CINEMATICROCKSTAR, and Surfer24k; a Discord server managed by GTA V content creator DarkViperAU; and another server called !Odyssey. Kotaku writes that Take-Two requests all identifying information related to the accounts, including things like their full names, phone numbers, any accounts they are linked to, and any content they have shared related to Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar, or Cyberleek.
Images of GTA VI The leaks began earlier this week on August 18, and Take-Two quickly took action, issuing takedown requests to prevent information about the game from being shared. Despite the company’s best efforts, leaks of the game continued to spread, including new videos suggesting that Cyberleek, the leaker or group associated with the footage, had a working version of the game. Before the footage leaked online, Take-Two and Rockstar planned to offer an “in-depth overview” of GTA VI thanks to an exclusive streaming deal with Netflix on August 27.
It’s not the first time GTA VI leaked. In 2022, footage of the game was shared by an 18-year-old member of the Lapsus$ hacking group, bizarrely via an Amazon Fire TV Stick. After a mental health evaluation determined the hacker was unfit to stand trial and intended to engage in cybercrime again if released, a judge sentenced him to indefinite hospitalization.
