The hunt for whoever leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage just got a lot more serious. Take-Two Interactive, the parent company behind Rockstar Games, has filed for legal subpoenas against both Microsoft and Discord as it tries to track down the source of recent leaks tied to its highly anticipated title.
According to a report from Kotaku, Take-Two submitted two separate petitions in the Southern District of New York, aiming to compel both tech companies to turn over records connected to the leak.
What Take-Two wants from Microsoft
On the Microsoft side, the request centers on a GitHub repository that reportedly hosted Rockstar’s copyrighted assets — things like unreleased artwork, audiovisual clips, dialogue snippets, and other creative material tied to the game. Take-Two is specifically asking Microsoft to share whatever internal investigation records and business documentation it has gathered around an account or persona known online as “cyberleek.”
What Take-Two wants from Discord
The Discord subpoena casts an even wider net. Take-Two is seeking identifying details tied to several accounts and servers, including users going by CYBERLEEK, CINEMATICROCKSTAR, and Surfer24k, as well as a server run by well-known GTA V creator DarkViperAU, and a separate server called !Odyssey. Per Kotaku, the company wants everything it can get — real names, phone numbers, linked accounts, and any GTA- or Rockstar-related content those users may have posted or shared.
How we got here
The leaks first surfaced on August 18, and Take-Two moved fast, firing off takedown notices in an attempt to contain the spread. It didn’t fully work — more footage kept popping up, including clips suggesting the leaker (or leakers) behind the “Cyberleek” name actually had access to a playable build of the game.
The timing stings a bit extra, too. Rockstar had lined up an exclusive extended preview of GTA VI set to air through Netflix on August 27 — a moment now overshadowed by unauthorized footage beating it to the internet.
This also isn’t Rockstar’s first rodeo with GTA VI leaks. Back in 2022, an 18-year-old linked to the hacking group Lapsus$ leaked early footage in a similarly chaotic fashion — reportedly pulling it off using nothing more than an Amazon Fire TV Stick from a hotel room in the UK. That case ended with the hacker being deemed unfit to stand trial and placed under an indefinite hospital order rather than facing a criminal sentence.
Whether these new subpoenas actually lead Take-Two to the source of this latest leak remains to be seen — but it’s clear the company isn’t planning to let this one slide quietly.
