Rockstar Games has taken down the website and Telegram channel used by a GTA 6 leaker. The leaker had spent the past week posting unauthorized footage and details from the unreleased game, and both outlets remained offline as of this writing.
Polygon first reported the takedown, noting that the leaker’s site went dark on Aug. 22. The page now returns a “blocked ID” message stating it was removed on request. “Requested content blocked by this node’s content policy,” the notice reads. The leaker’s Telegram channel is also gone, with the platform citing copyright infringement as the reason for pulling it.
The GTA 6 leaker’s channels went down within a week
The leaks caused real financial damage before the channels disappeared. Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar Games, lost nearly $3 billion in market valuation as the stolen footage and details spread across social media. In response, the company filed subpoena requests for Microsoft and Discord, seeking records that could help identify who obtained and distributed the material.
Neither Microsoft nor Discord has commented publicly on the subpoenas. Legal requests like these typically take weeks to produce results. Any formal identification of the leaker is unlikely to happen quickly, even with the main channels now offline.
This is not the first time GTA 6 has been hit by a major breach. A 2022 leak tied to the hacking group Lapsus$ put more than 90 clips of early gameplay footage online, and Rockstar said at the time it did not expect that incident to affect the finished game.
A new clip and a wave of copycats
It remains unclear whether the leaker has another way to keep posting. On the day the site went offline, a clip appeared on an account on X claiming to belong to the leaker. It showed a GTA 6 loading screen next to what was presented as their PC, an apparent attempt to prove they still hold a full build of the game.
The X account that posted the clip is no longer active, though copies of the video continue to circulate on other platforms. Dozens of accounts using the same name as the original leaker have surfaced over the past week. That makes it difficult to tell which posts, if any, come from the person holding the game’s files rather than from someone imitating them.
What happens next
Rockstar has not issued a public statement about the takedown or the ongoing subpoenas. The studio has stayed quiet throughout the leak episode, letting Take-Two’s legal filings do the talking instead of addressing the leaks directly.
With the leaker’s primary channels gone and their identity still unconfirmed, the next real update is more likely to surface in a court filing than in a new leaked clip. Rockstar has not announced a release date for GTA 6 beyond its previously stated 2026 window. The company has given no indication that the leaks will change its marketing plans.