CyberLeek gives up on leaking all of GTA 6, but keeps the ending under lock and key

CyberLeek is calling it quits. On 14 October the GTA 6 leaker announced it won't release the full game or any more videos, because its crypto coin never reached the $30 million it had set as the condition. It claims to have the story's ending and says it won't share it… unless someone comes after it. And it signs off with a "for now" that leaves the door ajar. Here's what it said, why it's stopping and whether it's really over.

What has CyberLeek announced?

Just two days ago we reported that CyberLeek was threatening to leak GTA 6 from start to finish. Today it has backed down. Its website now carries a three-part message titled "The End of the Road", alongside one last video, the 20th since it started in August. GTA 6 news accounts had it out within minutes:

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Cyberleek announces the end of GTA 6 leaks after posting the 20th clip, but says the dead man’s switch is active and story spoilers including the ending will be published if Take-Two catches him: “CL has the ending. It was considered. It would punish Take-Two greatly - but ruin… Read more on X

The key lines from the statement:

• On the ending: "CL has the ending. It was considered. It would punish Take-Two greatly – but ruin the experience for the gamers, who did nothing wrong." And then: "Take-Two was punished enough. The ending stays unpublished."
• On the full game: "The 30M was not reached, so no build." It says uploading more than 200 GB anonymously was too big a risk unless it paid off.
• The sign-off: "The Edict stands. The leeks stop here. For now."

Why is it stopping?

Money. Just like over the summer, everything was tied to its crypto coin, $CYBERLEEK: the playable build would only come out if the token hit a $30 million market cap. It never got close. After crashing this week, it's sitting at around $1 million, according to Wolf's Gaming Blog.

The community isn't buying it. Plenty of YouTubers and influencers are calling it a rug pull, the scam where a coin's creator pumps it up, then sells and walks off with the money. It wouldn't be the first time: on 27 August, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look, around $250,000 was pulled from the token, according to Kotaku, and the coin tanked. CyberLeek denies it in the statement. It says it only sold twice, both times just its trading fees, that the token "was always a donation, never an investment", and that everyone else sold in a panic and blamed it. It also complains that influencers "decided the story before the facts arrived".

What is the "dead man's switch"?

It's the threat CyberLeek leaves behind. It claims a system is in place that would publish the story spoilers if anyone takes it out. "Left alone, it never fires. Whoever removes CL chooses it," it writes. It doesn't explain how it works or what counts as "removing" it, and no one has been able to verify that it exists.

The message has a clear recipient. Take-Two has been trying to unmask the leaker since August: it asked a New York court to order Microsoft, Discord and X to hand over data on the accounts involved, according to GTA Intel, which has been tracking the cases. So far there's been no arrest and no one has been charged.

What's in the last video?

It runs about four minutes, with Journey's Don't Stop Believin' playing over it. Most of it is Lucia going about her business in Vice City (a barbershop, a clothes shop, a game of pool…) until the final seconds, which the leaker says are scenes from the final missions, out of context. It presents them as proof that it has the ending. Accounts that have seen it are warning people to watch out for spoilers from now on, and the story has reached the big outlets:

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Cyberleek has released a new GTA 6 gameplay video showing snippets of the ending, and declared "the end of the road" after their crypto scheme collapsed. bit.ly/4hLZGmP

If you're going on X, YouTube or TikTok over the next few days, mute "CyberLeek" and "GTA 6 leak". The steps are in our previous story.

Are the GTA 6 leaks really over?

Don't celebrate just yet. That "for now" isn't an accident, and CyberLeek has vanished before: after the August cash-out it went silent for over a month, then came back in October with 25 minutes of gameplay. According to Kotaku, some of its domains are now down, while others still show the farewell message.

What does look off the table is the worst-case scenario: the full game turning up on piracy sites before 19 November. Rockstar and Take-Two haven't said anything about the announcement. GTA 6 is still due on 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and with five weeks to go, every day without leaks is a day closer to launch with nothing spoiled.