GTA 6 Leaker CyberLeek Cashes Out $268K in Crypto

We flagged the crypto angle on this leak back on 19 August and called it a fundraising scheme wearing a cause as a coat. On 27 August, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look aired, the wallets behind it reportedly started moving money out.

This carries our Reported badge, not Confirmed. Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has commented, and nobody involved has confirmed their identity. What we have is on-chain data, tracked by a GTAForums member using the handle ViceCit, and corroborated in reporting from Tom's Hardware, Finbold, GosuGamers and Wolf's Gaming Blog.

Four transactions moved roughly $268,000

The tracked withdrawal splits across four separate transactions, according to the on-chain analysis these outlets cite. The destinations: the exchange KuCoin, a swap service called CCE.Cash, and a handful of other wallets that hadn't moved the funds as of the reporting. That is not a single payout to a single address. It is money being spread across multiple exits, which is the pattern you'd expect from someone trying to make the trail harder to follow rather than someone simply collecting a payday in the open.

The timing is the detail worth sitting with. Rockstar's Extended Look premiered on Netflix at 3 p.m. ET on 27 August, which we covered in full once it landed. The withdrawals reportedly started hours before that broadcast, not after it. Whoever moved the money didn't wait to see whether the official showcase would kill interest in the leaked material first.

This wasn't a classic rug pull

CyberLeek's token, $CYBERLEEK, launched on Solana and rode the leak's attention for over a week. A standard rug pull dumps a huge pre-minted reserve straight into the market and tanks the price in one move. That isn't quite what happened here. Tom's Hardware and Finbold both report the wallets burned roughly 270 million tokens rather than selling them outright, and instead made money from the transaction fees generated every time someone else bought or sold the coin.

The distinction matters for how you read the word "scam" attached to this. Burning supply while farming trading fees is still a way to convert other people's speculation into your own cash, but it isn't the same move as printing tokens and selling them straight into buyers' orders. Either way, the people who bought in on the promise of an "anti-corporate" cause funded someone else's withdrawal.

The token collapsed regardless

$CYBERLEEK dropped roughly 46% in the 24 hours around the cash-out, down to about $0.0097, according to the figures in this round of reporting. Its market cap fell from a peak near $25 million on 23 August to roughly $7 million. Anyone holding the token through that window watched most of its value disappear in the same stretch the wallets behind it were reportedly withdrawing.

None of this is unusual for a memecoin tied to a hype cycle. What makes it notable is the cause the coin claimed to fund. The manifesto attached to the leaked footage asked for no digital-only preorders, no shipped-but-locked DLC, and offline fallback modes, framed as consumer rights demands aimed at publishers generally, GTA 6 specifically. Stop Killing Games, the actual preservation campaign whose language the manifesto borrowed, publicly rejected the association when we first covered this.

The subpoena trail doesn't stop here

Cashing out doesn't make the legal exposure disappear. Take-Two's federal subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord, which we covered when they were filed, are still active, with compliance due 4 September. Earlier reporting on the funding trail placed part of it at a KYC-verified KuCoin account, meaning an exchange that, by regulation, holds identity documents on whoever opened it. Moving money into an account like that isn't the same as moving it somewhere untraceable.

If a name does surface, it's more likely to come from that legal process than from blockchain sleuthing on GTAForums, however good that sleuthing has been so far. Until then, this stays exactly what it's been since 18 August: unverified footage, wrapped in a consumer-rights pitch, funding an anonymous wallet. Our guide to spotting fake GTA 6 leaks has the full pattern if you want the general playbook rather than just this one instance of it, and the everything-we-know hub has what Rockstar has actually confirmed, which remains a separate list from anything CyberLeek posted.