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GTA 6 is easily one of the most anticipated games ever made, and with that hype, of course comes a whole lot of leaks. If you've been trying to keep up with everything, check out all the GTA 6 leaks that have gotten out before launch!
All GTA 6 Leaks
1. September 2022 - The Massive Hack
This is the one that started it all. Back then on September 18th, 2022, a user called "teapotuberhacker" posted over 90 leaked files on GTAForums. The clips showed raw development footage of GTA 6. They include the characters, locations, vehicles, and behind-the-scenes stuff that Rockstar definitely didn't want the world seeing yet.
It blew up almost instantly. News outlets everywhere called it one of the biggest leaks in video game history. Take-Two went into full damage control mode within hours, sending takedown notices across the internet.
The person behind it turned out to be Arion Kurtaj, a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire, England. What makes this even wilder is that he pulled the whole thing off using just an Amazon Fire TV Stick, a mobile phone, and a hotel TV. He was the founder of the Lapsus hacker group.
In December 2023, a judge placed him under an indefinite hospital order after he was found to be a high public risk and had expressed plans to keep doing cybercrime.
2. December 2023 - The TikTok Leak
Three days before the official first trailer was supposed to drop, a TikTok account named @azzarossi posted a phone recording of a monitor showing an early build of GTA 6. The video did a full 360-degree pan showing the Stockyard neighborhood of Vice City.
The alleged leaker also claimed through DMs that the GTA 6 map would be twice the size of GTA 5, include three major cities and four sub-cities, and have at least 70% buildings you can actually enter. Buildings shown in the TikTok video matched up perfectly with what appeared in the official trailer just days later, so most people in the community accepted it as the real deal.
3. December 2023 - Trailer 1 Gets Leaked Too
Then, to make this even messier, the official Trailer 1 itself got leaked less than 16 hours before its scheduled release on December 4th, 2023. Someone posted a lower quality version of it online with "BUY $BTC" plastered across the footage. Once it started spreading, Rockstar moved fast and just released the real trailer early at 6:00 PM EST that same day.
Rockstar employees were pretty vocal about how frustrated they were, which was totally understandable. Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick later said the leak was "disappointing" but he didn't think it hurt the game's reception in the end.
4. January 2025 - Early Developer Screenshot
After a full year of silence, a Reddit user named "JustLovett0" posted on r/GamingLeaksAndRumours on January 1st, 2025, sharing what they claimed was an image from a mid-2021 development build of GTA 6.
The image showed Lucia on screen in an area of Leonida with trees, containers, and construction equipment. Next to the monitor was a real PlayStation 5 dev kit. The metadata on the image revealed it was taken on June 22nd, 2021, with an iPhone 12 Pro at 2220 Faraday Avenue in Carlsbad, California, which is the actual address of Rockstar San Diego.
The leaker deleted the post shortly after, saying the person behind it no longer works at Rockstar or anywhere related to the industry.
5. September 2025 - Leaked Domains
Next, on September 8th, 2025, GTA dataminer Tex2 (formerly Tez2) found a batch of domains all registered on May 27th, 2025 under Take-Two Interactive's nameservers.
The domains included names like what-up.app, rydeme.app, leonidagov.org, brianandbradley.com, and some pretty interesting ones like hookers-galore.com and myboyhasacreepycorndog.com. If you have played GTA games before, you will know that these sound exactly like something you'd find in a GTA game.
The very next day, all those domains were quietly removed from Take-Two's nameservers.
6. November 2025 - Animator's Demo Reel
The most recent leak came from a surprising place. On November 30th, 2025, a demo reel from Benjamin Chue, a former Rockstar Toronto character animator, started making the rounds. He had uploaded it to Vimeo back in September 2025 under the title "BC Demo Reel 2025."
The first 20 seconds of the reel accidentally included three GTA 6 animation test clips, set to "Love Is a Long Road" by Tom Petty. This is the same song from the game's first trailer. The clips showed a player character picking up and docking a LomBike at a bike share station, and a female character stepping out of a black Sadler truck near the Boardwalk Hotel.
The bike and station had already appeared in official media, so it all lined up. Chue took the video down the same day it started spreading.
All of these GTA 6 leaks has pieced together a clearer picture of what GTA 6 is going to be. Vice City is confirmed, Lucia is a playable character, the map looks massive, and even small details like bike share stations shows a level of world-building that's more detailed than anything Rockstar has done before. We are guessing that before the release on different platforms, more leaks will keep coming, and each one just makes the wait feel longer!
