Take-Two, the mother or father firm of Grand Theft Auto Rockstar Video games, has filed a number of subpoena requests in federal district courtroom in search of data associated to the latest spread of GTA 6 gameplay videos. The corporate has petitioned each Microsoft and Discord for the discharge of any information associated to numerous on-line accounts concerned in posting and sharing leaks of the sport forward of its November launch. That features person knowledge in addition to knowledge about any related OneDrive or linked Xbox accounts.
“The copyrighted materials consists of however will not be restricted to audiovisual content material, art work, photos, dialogue, or different artistic parts,” reads a petition for a subpoena filed with the Southern District Court docket of New York on August 20. It continues, “Take-Two, by means of its counsel of file, has submitted a sworn declaration confirming that the aim for which the DMCA subpoena is sought is to acquire the id of an alleged infringer or infringers, and that such data will solely be used for the aim of defending Take-Two’s rights…”
The one petition, which references a Github repository the place infringing content material was posted, offers Microsoft till September 4 to supply “all inside Microsoft enterprise information and investigative information related to Microsoft’s inside investigation of the ‘cyberleek’ persona ample to establish the person(s), individual(s) and/or entity/ies related to that persona.” It continues:
All figuring out data related to all person accounts which are/had been members speaking with the Discord server(s) listed under in the course of the time interval from June 1, 2026 to current; and for these accounts, present any related gadget/telemetry information the place a number of of the instrument/file artifacts under had been current on the system. For every returned account, present: the account ID, registration e mail, registration and last-login IP addresses, telephone quantity, linked connections (Google/Xbox/and so on.), any related gadget identifiers (MachineGuid/MSA), and content material associated to Grand Theft Auto (‘GTA’), Rockstar or Cyberleek from their OneDrive account.
Discord has the identical deadline to supply a trove of information associated to “all person accounts which are/had been members speaking with the Discord server(s)” that contain “CYBERLEEK,” “CINEMATICROCKSTAR,” and “Surfer24k™ (+ alternative handles cyberleek_west, surwest),” in addition to “Ødyssey.gg,” “‘! Odyssey’ public model guild (discord.gg/odyssey),” and “DarkViperAU editors’ server (discord.gg/darkviperau).” That final one is for the the favored GTA 5 Twitch and YouTube streamer Matthew “Matt” Decide.
“They’re asking for my discord information, I’m talked about by title,” Decide wrote in response on X. “I don’t know something. That isn’t my editors discord. There aren’t even any clips of the leaks in both of my Discords. I’m confused. I did say he can’t drive a number of occasions, so possibly I brought on him to put in writing ‘Cyberleek can’t drive’ on the newest clips? Possibly he visited my Discord, I dunno. Rockstar hasn’t emailed me, I believe in the event that they thought I knew one thing personally they’d accomplish that. Everyone seems to be speaking about these leaks, I’m not particular, hopefully.”
The id of the individual or group answerable for spreading a number of gameplay clips revealing new options and never-before-seen components of GTA 6‘s world and mechanics has but to be uncovered, and Rockstar Video games hasn’t but commented on the scenario. The clips have been posted below the alias “Cyberleek,” circulated from a web site with a manifesto which has known as on sport firms to cease practices like digital pre-orders and the locking of completed content material behind paywalls or as “faux” DLC, however the person or group has additionally seemingly been utilizing the unprecedented leaks to get folks on-line to purchase right into a crypto foreign money meme coin it may revenue off of.
Replace 8/21/2026, 12:21 p.m. ET: Added remark from Matthew Decide, AKA DarkViperAU.
Replace 8/21/2026, 12:21 p.m. ET: Modified headline to make clear that Take-Two is asking the courtroom to order the information subpoenaed.