GTA 6 Leaker CyberLeek Cashes Out Roughly $270,000 From Meme Coin Hours Before Rockstar's Official Reveal
The anonymous figure behind a wave of Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks cashed out approximately $270,000 (around £200,000) from a self-promoted cryptocurrency scheme on 27 August 2026 — just hours before Rockstar Games was set to officially unveil extended GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix (Eurogamer, IGN).
The leaker, operating under the name CyberLeek, had embedded a meme coin — a joke cryptocurrency with no intrinsic value, traded on speculation — into every leaked GTA 6 clip they released since mid-August 2026. Each video carried promotion for the CYBERLEEK token, and fans were directed to a website where they could use the coin to vote on which parts of the game would be leaked next (Eurogamer).
On 27 August, CyberLeek moved around £200,000 out of the meme coin through four transactions spread across several wallets, according to crypto analyst Vice Cit, who was cited by Eurogamer. Vice Cit suspected at least two people were involved in the scheme, noting that the funds moved to three separate wallets.
The numbers tell a stark story about the scheme's economics. Vice Cit estimated the entire setup — the token, the website, and the file uploads — cost roughly $29,000 to create. Against the approximately $270,000 cashed out, that implies a profit of around $241,000 (Eurogamer). Meanwhile, the CYBERLEEK token's market capitalisation — the total value of all coins in circulation — has collapsed by about 75 percent since the first GTA 6 leak dropped, falling from a peak of $23.39m to $3.85m (Eurogamer).
The cash-out landed the same day Rockstar was scheduled to show an extended look at GTA VI gameplay in a broadcast tied to Netflix on Thursday, 27 August 2026 (Mashable). CoinDesk also reported on 27 August that CyberLeek cashed out millions of tokens from his own memecoin hours before Rockstar's gameplay reveal (CoinDesk).
CyberLeek's leaking campaign had been escalating for weeks. Beginning in mid-August 2026, the anonymous individual or group began publishing unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 material, and by late August the game had suffered six straight days of gameplay leaks (GameSpot, IGN). The most recent clip at that point was the ninth GTA 6 gameplay video to surface that week, showing one of the game's two protagonists, Jason, according to IGN. Footage released by CyberLeek showed the leaker shooting the word "LEEK" into an in-game wall, indicating access to a playable GTA 6 build — though not necessarily the full game (PC Gamer).
Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, had already fought back. Rockstar filed subpoenas with a federal court requesting information from Microsoft and Discord regarding the GTA 6 gameplay leaks (Variety).
This is not the first time GTA 6 leaks have ended with legal consequences. In December 2023, an 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto game was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in the UK (BBC News).
For fans, the cash-out adds a sharper edge to an already fraught leak season. The person many were watching for glimpses of a long-awaited game was, it appears, also running a side hustle on the audience's attention — converting leaked footage into speculative coin value and then into real money before the official reveal could overshadow the leaks entirely.
