'The Ending Stays Unpublished': GTA 6 Leaker CYBERLEEK Calls It Quits, but Says Its Dead Man's Switch Is Armed

The GTA 6 leaks are over, at least according to the people doing the leaking. On October 14, CYBERLEEK posted a three-part message on its website headed "End of the road," Kotaku reports, saying it will not release a full build of the game and that its run of gameplay leaks stops, for now.

The group also says it has the game's ending and has decided to sit on it. "The ending stays unpublished," the message reads, according to Kotaku and TheGamer. The catch: CYBERLEEK claims some story spoilers are wired to a dead man's switch that goes off only if someone takes the group down.

It is a sharp climbdown from a group that, four days earlier, put a $30 million price on releasing the entire story mode, as we reported on October 10. Here is what the message says, why the build isn't coming, and what to do with the five weeks left before launch. As with all our CYBERLEEK coverage, we are not linking the group's site, describing leaked material or promoting its token.

What CYBERLEEK said

The message makes four claims, as reported by Kotaku, Dexerto and TheGamer.

First, there will be no full build. CYBERLEEK still says it has a copy of GTA 6 weighing more than 200GB, but argues that uploading something that size anonymously was only worth the risk if its meme coin reached the $30 million market cap it had set as the trigger. It didn't, so the build stays private.

Second, the gameplay leaks are done. The final batch went up the same day, and the group describes it as out-of-context clips that give nothing away on their own.

Third, the ending. CYBERLEEK says it considered releasing it, and that doing so would have hit Take-Two hard, but that it would also ruin the story for players who did nothing wrong. It adds that, in its view, Take-Two has been punished enough.

Fourth, the money. The group denies the scheme was a rug pull, says it sold coins only twice and took only the trading fees it had announced, and calls the token a donation rather than an investment. Kotaku isn't convinced, writing that there was plenty of evidence the whole operation looked like a rug pull designed to separate people from their money.

Why the build isn't coming: the coin never got close

The $30 million target was never realistic. When IGN reported the threat on October 10, the coin sat at about $3.8 million after a spike to $5.7 million, and IGN called the goal unlikely. By the afternoon of October 14, CoinGecko listed its market cap at roughly $1.2 million, down almost 40% in a day and about 95% below its peak. At that point the target was roughly 25 times what the coin was worth.

That fits the pattern skeptics have described since August, when the group pulled roughly $200,000 to $270,000 out of the coin shortly before Rockstar's Extended Look, as we covered in our CYBERLEEK status report. A threat with a price tag doubled as an advert for the token, and when the price didn't follow, the threat went away. Nothing the group has shown proves it ever had a complete, playable story mode.

The last leak, without spoilers

The final clips went up alongside the message. Dexerto describes a short video of Lucia in parts of a mission, and the group says the footage comes from the game's final missions, cut away from the story that leads into it. TheGamer counts it as the group's 20th leaked clip. We are not going to describe what is in it.

If you want to reach the end of GTA 6 knowing nothing, this is the riskiest stretch so far. Late-game footage tends to spread as reuploads with harmless-looking titles and thumbnails, so mute "GTA 6 ending," "GTA 6 final mission," "GTA 6 leak" and "CYBERLEEK" now, and stay out of comment sections under GTA 6 videos until you have finished the story. Our spoiler avoidance guide walks through the full setup for X, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit and Discord.

The dead man's switch

CYBERLEEK says a set of unposted story spoilers will be released automatically if anyone moves to remove it, and that the switch never fires if the group is left alone, per Kotaku and Dexerto. Read plainly, that is a warning aimed at Take-Two and at anyone working to unmask the leaker.

There is no way to check whether a switch exists or what sits behind it. Kotaku noted that some of the group's linked domains had already gone down while others still showed the message, and TechWiser reported that the site had since gone offline. Nothing had been released as a result at the time of writing.

Take-Two's hunt has been running through US courts since August, with subpoenas to Microsoft and Discord, and nobody has been publicly identified, charged or arrested; our status report has the details. Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has commented on the new message. Rockstar's only public statement on these leaks is still the one it posted in August, which we covered in Rockstar's statement on the leaks.

The leaks have stung inside Rockstar, too. In a Bloomberg feature published the same day, Rockstar staff were reported to be grumbling that the August leak happened despite the studio's strict office-only security rules, which ended remote work in 2024. More on that in our Bloomberg breakdown.

Is it really over?

Don't bank on it. The group's own message only promises a stop for now, and its story has changed repeatedly: an August manifesto against digital-only games, then a crypto coin, then a $30 million ultimatum, and now a stand-down with a threat attached. Kotaku describes the group's messaging as mixed and confusing. Treat this as a pause, not a promise.

What this means for you

The launch hasn't moved. GTA 6 is still out on November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with preload from November 12, as covered in our preload guide.

The practical advice hasn't changed much either. Don't download anything sold or shared as a GTA 6 build: fake GTA 6 files are a known malware trap, and a real leaked build would be stolen software, as our download scam warning explains. Don't buy the coin, which has lost around 95% of its value from its peak and no longer has a threat to sell. And because final-mission clips are now in circulation, set up your spoiler filters before launch week rather than during it.

FAQ

Has CYBERLEEK stopped leaking GTA 6?

It says so. On October 14 the group said it will not release a full build and that its gameplay leaks stop, for now.

Did CYBERLEEK leak the GTA 6 ending?

It claims to have the ending but says it won't publish it. Its final clips, posted the same day, come from the game's final missions according to the group, shown without story context.

Will the full GTA 6 build be released?

Not by CYBERLEEK, according to its own message. It tied a release to its coin reaching a $30 million market cap, and the coin never came close.

What is CYBERLEEK's dead man's switch?

A claim that unreleased story spoilers will be posted automatically if anyone takes the group down. It cannot be verified.

Is GTA 6 still coming out on November 19?

Yes. None of the leaks has changed the release date.

Sources

• Kotaku - GTA 6 Leaker Announces They Won't Release The Full Game
• Dexerto - Cyberleek stops GTA 6 leaks after posting parts of final missions
• TheGamer - Cyberleek Confirms 20th GTA 6 Leak Will Be Their Last
• TechWiser - Cyberleek Promises to Stop GTA 6 Leaks After $30 Million Goal Fails
• IGN - GTA 6 Leaker Threatens to Release Build With Full Story Mode Played to the End
• Bloomberg Businessweek - The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI