GTA 6 Leak List
Eight Grand Theft Auto VI leaks have survived long enough to be worth a record. Each entry below states what was actually shown, who published it first, and how much weight it carries — from events Rockstar confirmed itself down to claims the community has picked apart.
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August 18, 2026VerifiedCyberLeek: gameplay clips nine days before Rockstar's own reveal
Nine days before An Extended Look was due on Netflix, roughly two minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay appeared online, followed by a third clip and an image claiming to be the complete map of Leonida. Rockstar and Take-Two were filing takedowns within hours.
Sources: 4
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November 30, 2025CredibleTwenty seconds of animation tests in a portfolio reel
A character animator's showreel, uploaded to Vimeo in September 2025, went unnoticed for three months. Then the GTA community found the first twenty seconds — three animation tests cut to the song from Trailer 1.
Sources: 1
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September 8, 2025CredibleEight domains registered under Take-Two's nameservers
Not footage — DNS records. A long-running community dataminer found eight domains, all registered on 27 May 2025, all sitting on Take-Two Interactive's nameservers, all reading like in-game websites. They were gone within a day of being posted.
Sources: 2
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January 1, 2025CredibleA photo taken inside Rockstar San Diego in 2021
After a year with no new footage, a Reddit thread offered a photograph of a monitor inside a Rockstar office running Grand Theft Auto VI. The metadata is what made it interesting: it pointed straight at Rockstar San Diego's front door.
Sources: 2
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December 4, 2023VerifiedTrailer 1 leaks 16 hours early with a crypto watermark
Less than sixteen hours before its scheduled premiere, a lower-quality copy of Trailer 1 appeared online with "BUY $BTC" burned across the picture. Rockstar responded by moving the premiere forward to 6:00 PM EST the same day.
Sources: 3
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December 2, 2023CredibleThe Stockyard TikTok, two days before Trailer 1
A TikTok captioned "First look at GTA 6" showed a phone pointed at a monitor running a development build, panning a full circle around the Stockyard neighbourhood of Vice City. Trailer 1 landed two days later and contained the same buildings.
Sources: 2
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September 18, 2022VerifiedThe September 2022 hack: 90 files on GTAForums
A new GTAForums account posted download links to more than 90 files of in-development Grand Theft Auto VI footage. Rockstar confirmed the breach the next day and Take-Two filed it with the SEC. It is still the largest leak in the history of the medium.
Sources: 5
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July 20, 2022VerifiedThe Bloomberg report that named Vice City and a female lead
Eighteen months before Rockstar showed a single frame, a Bloomberg report described the game that shipped: two leads in the style of Bonnie and Clyde, one of them a Latina woman, and a map pulled back to a fictional Miami and its surroundings.
Sources: 2