r/pcmasterrace • u/Chief_White_Halfoat • Aug 27 '26
News/Article GTA 6 Leaks Could Be Over As Cyberleek Withdraws $250,000 And Leaves Memecoin To Crash
https://kotaku.com/gta6-grand-theft-auto-6-leaks-cyberleek-memecoin-rockstar-cash-out-20007288257.8k
u/40_Thousand_Hammers Aug 27 '26
And only idiots will be shocked by this.
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u/Chief_White_Halfoat Aug 27 '26
This subreddit would have had you convinced he was going to be releasing the whole game though.
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u/chilll_vibe Aug 27 '26
He very well might have, but that doesn't change the fact he was an obvious grifter all along
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u/eddy_brooks Aug 27 '26
Didn’t he explicitly say his plan was to pull the money all along?
I read that he told people it is not an investment and that he will be pulling the money
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u/Super_Range45 Aug 27 '26
At this point you had to basically lack a brain to see buying the coin as anything less than a donation to him.
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u/WeTheSalty Aug 28 '26
Wasn't that explicitly the point of the coin, to 'support' him? Were people really buying it thinking they were investing? Peak crypto bro investor behavior if so
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u/Then-Departure4896 Aug 28 '26
I thought that was every meme coin? They’re all rug pulls, why is anyone ever surprised by it
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u/redalchemy6 Aug 28 '26
Because their cousin got rich on bitcoin so they think they'll catch the next big one lol
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u/vliukkiang Aug 27 '26
Dont think so, he burned tokens to "prove" he won't do it
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u/rofflemow . Aug 27 '26
Which is a common rugpuller strat.
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u/Inevitable-Bedroom56 Aug 28 '26
he burned 1 mil in coins probably hoping to get more in return, looks like it didnt pay off
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u/thealmightyzfactor i9-10900X | EVGA 3080 FTW3 | 2 x EGVA 1070 FTW | 64 GB RAM Aug 28 '26
1 mil on paper, if they actually tried to sell 1 million worth, the price would have quickly collapsed (see what's happening now), so it's not like it was real money in the first place
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u/Kichigai Ryzen 7 9700X/32GB / Intel Arc B580 12GB Aug 28 '26
Dunno, he still walked away with a quarter million more than he started with.
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u/vliukkiang Aug 27 '26
I know, but I haven't seen him being as upfront as the first guy made it seem, could be wrong
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u/prince_0611 Aug 27 '26
How is an electronic currency burned?
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u/Gimetulkathmir Aug 27 '26
You send it to a digital address that doesn't have an access key, which effectively removes them from circulation. Money goes in but it can't come out.
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u/InSAniTy1102 Aug 27 '26
Could you "fake" burn? I don't understand how you can create a Wallet or send it to a wallet without a key but there being no possible way of creating a key or cloaking a legit wallet as a burn wallet?
Sorry if I sound retarded I know nothing of the space.
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u/Gimetulkathmir Aug 27 '26
You can, but there are burn addresses that are public and known to be legitimate burn addresses. Think of it like dropping money into a fire. Sure, you can say you did it, but for these addresses just sending it to the address is proof it was burned and then there are plenty of people/programs watching it to then remove the currency from circulation and calculations and stuff.
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u/notislant Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Yeah so heres my question to you.
What makes more sense?
Me providing various wallets for people to donate to, if they so choose.
Or:
'YO GUYS HERE MY BRAND NEW
SHITCOIN, OMG LOOK THE CHARTS GOING UP, HOLY SHIT FOMO, FOMO GUYS, LOOK AT THE GAINS!'aaaand rugpull.
It's very obvious to anyone with the bare minimum intelligence, that this guy was just trying to fleece a bunch of morons. Yet people still defended him lol.
Even someordinarygamers said: "there was a lot of allegations that CyberLak was profiting off of this crypto. And so, I I believe, you know, in his last leak, he said they burned all the developer tokens and he's just working off the trading volume at this point. So if you look at it, you can see that the trading volume was like 25something million. This token has actually went up. There have been because of all of this attention and drama, there are now 30,000 plus bagholders"
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u/aimy99 PNY 5070 | 5800X3D | 32GB DDR4 | OLED 1440p 180hz Aug 27 '26
Yeah I thought that part was obvious
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u/yaxir Ryzen 1500X | Nitro RX580 8GB | 24 GB DDR4 | 1 TB WD GREEN Aug 27 '26
no one does shit for free
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u/CaleDestroys Specs/Imgur Here Aug 27 '26
Some people actually do though, but it does seems like these crypto douches sure make the case for why monetary and transactional regulations exist in the first place.
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u/Kichigai Ryzen 7 9700X/32GB / Intel Arc B580 12GB Aug 28 '26
There's a saying in the trades: regulations are written with blood. A lot of people don't seem to understand a lot of rules and regulations weren't implemented for no reason.
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u/Winjin Aug 27 '26
Xatab did his repacks for the love of the game, he always said so too, never took donations, never took any sponsor money or malware money
But I'd say if you see a giant coin ad in every video? They would only be there if the author wants to get rich off them
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u/Immatt55 Aug 27 '26
More nexus Skyrim mod downloads than human beings on earth would like to disagree with you, admittedly a lot of people would charge if it wasn't against Bethesda TOS.
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u/okram2k Aug 27 '26
You're telling me the guy who kept releasing videos with links to his meme coin watermarked on them wasn't doing it just for the attention?
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u/VoidVer RTX V2 4090 | 7800x3D | DDR5-6000 | SSUPD Meshlicious Aug 27 '26
I don’t think anyone expected a meme coin created by criminal hacker to be a trustworthy investment vehicle
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u/Kodamacile Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Of course he was a grifter, but so is Rockstar. I'm just happy to see grifters fighting each other.
The amount of cope below my comment is hilarious.
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u/Chief_White_Halfoat Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
I feel like the definition of grifter is becoming stretched beyond belief if we are just applying it randomly where it doesn't even make sense. Words have actual meanings, and grifter is a useful one. Please let's not apply it to everything.
There is not really a context in which it makes sense to apply it to Rockstar.
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u/Remarkable-Onion3726 i3-12100 • RX 6600 • 16GB DDR4 • Sleeping Inspiron Aug 27 '26
It hadn't been unheard of - near finished copies of Half-Life 2 and Tears of the Kingdom found their way to the public before release day, as well as the entire plot of The Last of Us 2.
But the longer this guy stretched the drama out, the clearer it became that he either had nothing, or had some bizarre reason that he was never going to release anything.
I guess another Occam's Razor possibility is that whatever he actually snuck out of Rockstar's servers was so minor, it was a few minutes of MP4 footage of early beta testers messing around.
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u/MadamPardone Aug 27 '26
Ok but how did he write LEEK in the wall. Or do you think he picked his name after he saw them do that?
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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 5070 | 32gb Aug 27 '26
Honestly I am shocked... shocked that they rug pulled with only 250k
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u/Metallibus Aug 27 '26
Considering they subpoenad his info from Microsoft, it's kinda not long before he gets caught. His time was ticking. 250k is enough to buy a flight out of the country and still come out with a sizeable profit.
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u/burtmacklin15 R7 9700X | RX 9070XT | B650M Project ZERO Aug 27 '26
They didn't subpoena "his" info. They subpoenaed the info of about 20 different people trying to impersonate him.
He stated from the beginning that he didn't have any social media accounts for that explicit reason.
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u/drunkbusdriver Aug 27 '26
Lmao so many people on the GTA sub were saying how he’s just doing this to cover “costs” and that since he deleted a bunch of dev tokens that means he couldn’t possibly be doing a rug pull. Morons, all of them. Anyone who “invested” in this coin deserves to have all their money taken.
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u/Ricoh4 Aug 27 '26
It was definitly an experience seeing a crypto scam in real time and seeing people defending an obvios scam. Usally is just some low level celebrity and i hear about it days later.
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u/Gil_Demoono Ryzen 9 5950X | TUF 3090 | 64GB@3600mhz Aug 27 '26
I don't know if I would even call it a scam honestly. I mean, who was genuinely thinking that this was gonna be some kind of asset to hold onto? My immediate assumption was that this was the simplest way to get less traceable donations for illegal activities. If you are thinking in 2026 that buying leek coin was an investment then I might literally have a bridge to sell you.
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u/VoidOmatic Desktop i7 6700k | GTX 1080 | 20GB DDR4 Aug 27 '26
The same guys who fell for Trump coin, Hawk Tua coin, Logan Paul and the rest.
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u/J1mj0hns0n Aug 27 '26
was about to say, after seeing like 9 other pump and dumps, then he does this, its like...duh.
thing is though, he'll be going to jail for the GTA stuff, they'll forget he did this, and hell keep his money.
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u/NameLips Aug 27 '26
Isn't this how all memecoins work? Do people really think they're getting in on the ground floor of a grand new crypto?
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u/Altruistic_Region699 Aug 27 '26
Yes it is. People just want to feel smart "Haha, see how these STUPID people got SCAMMED in this super obvious rug pull?"
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u/labab99 Aug 28 '26
Redditors are so smart that they can’t see the incredibly obvious thing lying a centimeter beneath the surface
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u/ApprehensiveGold2773 Aug 27 '26
Anyone who bought his crypto should get their internet access permanently revoked
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u/Upstairs_Weird_760 Rosen 7600X, 16GB DDD5 5000mhz, RX6750XT Aug 27 '26
the ol dick twist
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u/Ani-3 Aug 27 '26
what if you don't have those?
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u/-SMartino R7 5700X | 32gb 3200mhz DDR4 | RX 9060XT 16Gb | CM MB320L Aug 27 '26
temporary endometriosis.
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u/LimpyDan PC Master Race | RYZEN 5600X | RTX 3070 TI | 32GB 3200 Aug 27 '26
You do, they are just on the inside.
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u/seriousbusines Ryzen 5 7600X | RX 9070 XT | 32gb Aug 27 '26
Reminder that Crypto has had multiple exchanges hacked for millions of dollars worth of crypto because people keep using them as banks. This has happened MUILTIPLE TIMES and people still don't learn.
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u/Doogiemon Aug 27 '26
I keep mine in FTX.
It gets interest and its protected by a genius CEO so nothing can go wrong and there is no risk.
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u/TypicallyThomas Aug 27 '26
In fairness a lot of people who bought it were speculating, getting in while the value is low and get out before the inevitable crash with a profit. I'm not defending those people and I definitely don't support it, but it's not like these people were in it for the long haul
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u/Remarkable-Onion3726 i3-12100 • RX 6600 • 16GB DDR4 • Sleeping Inspiron Aug 27 '26
The entire "leak" was so incomprehensibly lame that, real legal ramifications aside, I understand why people suspect that he was literally working for Rockstar.
A proper, old-fashioned Internet asshole would have spoiled the ending and then dropped the whole .exe onto Bittorrent.
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u/Opposite-Cup2850 Aug 27 '26
Yeah it seemed pretty obvious the guy was milking it so he could inflate his crypto coin while hiding behind that moral high ground shit about gamers having to stand against these evil corporations. His excuse was he needed money to cover operational costs lmao. Was he moving around the world like James Bond while rockstar sent assassins after him?
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u/postulate4 Aug 27 '26
You've got to remember that these are just simple gamers. These are people of the Internet — the common clay of the online world. You know... morons.
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u/tablesheep 9800X3D | 5080FE | 2x32 CL30 6000 Aug 27 '26
It's tradeable on any Solana DEX. It's mainly bots pvping
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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt Aug 27 '26
just another thief using the I’m gonna take on the Corpo’s to pad their own pocket
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u/boringestnickname Aug 27 '26
Was he moving around the world like James Bond while rockstar sent assassins after him?
Heard about Hasbro sending the god damn Pinkertons after a guy that randomly got a hold of a booster pack he shouldn't have before release?
I wouldn't put it past Take-Two.
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u/iluvchromosomes Aug 27 '26
Seemed? He was openly doing that. He was asking for and taking money as payment for more leaks.
It was transactional, intentional, and public knowledge. We paid him to do it for these reactions.
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u/CHOLO_ORACLE Aug 27 '26
Yeah it was clear from the jump. The only people who thought it was a “real crypto coin” (as if that exists) were the complete morons
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u/JakeThomasDad12 Aug 27 '26
Was like the discord hackers leaking IDs and children's data and blaming discord for it
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u/Kodamacile Aug 27 '26
No, Discord is absolutely a shitty, irresponsible, insecure company, that should not be trusted.
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Ryzen 7 9700x / Gigabyte OC 9070 / 64gb DDR5 Aug 27 '26
A proper, old-fashioned internet asshole wouldnt have tried to profit. They wouldve dropped that .exe for the love of the game. They don't make em like that anymore.
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u/Toutanus Aug 27 '26
I mean : without the shitcoin thing I was ready to believe it is a marketing campaign directly from rockstar.
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u/DexM23 Ryzen 7 5700X3D | 5700 XT | 32GB DDR4-3200 | 1440p144Hz Aug 27 '26
Nah, a second income-stream though cryptoscams are already official works thanks to Trump
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u/RigBughorn Aug 27 '26
Not a single cutscene means he either had a super incomplete build or didn't really want any heat.
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u/aykyle Aug 27 '26
He had a few cutscenes and showed the prologue, just fyi. Claims it’s a recent build but obviously the guy lies. But the cutscenes were there.
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u/NekCing i5-14400F | RTX 5060 Ti | 32gb RAM Aug 27 '26
At this point i cant wait for a retrospective video a year later on how this leaker guy even got the files to begin with
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u/Barnaboule69 Aug 27 '26
He coded the whole thing himself.
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u/NekCing i5-14400F | RTX 5060 Ti | 32gb RAM Aug 27 '26
He is actually John Rockstar pulling a secret villain identity
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u/oldsecondhand Laptop Aug 27 '26
No, he's Joseph Rockstar aka Joestar, the famous 10x developer. His superpower is cloning any software just by looking at it for 5 seconds.
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u/NekCing i5-14400F | RTX 5060 Ti | 32gb RAM Aug 27 '26
Well, it does seem like he has pulled the Joestar Classic with the bitcoins
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u/Ok-Dimension-7859 Aug 27 '26
Apparently Vibe Coded GTA 6 with Claude within a week
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u/aykyle Aug 27 '26
I think it actually is an older build, prob 2025 maybe.
I think he did all this before the gameplay drops because he knew it'd expose his build is older.
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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 5090 Astral|270K+|48GB-8200MTs|Z890 Apex|60TB|HYTE Y70|S90F OLED Aug 27 '26
The music in the leaks was from 2025 and he did write his name with bullets on a wall. I hate the guy bc crypto scamming sucks but I think he has a partial build which is nuts. Seems to be limited to very early game, which makes sense, as games like this are QAd in pieces. Almost no one sees a complete build
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u/elinamebro PC Master Race Aug 27 '26
Someone said it had a song from 2025 so it some what recent but who know if it was a complete build
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u/simple-potato-farmer Aug 27 '26
Game dev here (not rockstar), it's not unheard of for development builds for non cinematic teams to not have cutscenes in. It's just something that is either stripped out for teams that don't care about it or they'll be disabled by default unless you use a command to re-enable them.
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u/_Aggort Aug 27 '26
I don't think people understand the scope of what all he leaked. There were a few cutscenes he leaked including a prologue to Lucia
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u/IrishLedge Aug 27 '26
From the moment I heard these leaks I thought it was an elaborate marketing scheme to get people talking. It worked regardless of what tin foil hat stuff I come up with.
Ever since sonic was released with a ridiculous face which sparked outrage. But, ultimately changed the face to normal and got a tonne of "free" publicity. This is doing the same.
Honestly I'm probably off the mark because it's very elaborate. But I can't trust what is real or not anymore.
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u/Kodamacile Aug 27 '26
A coworker was speculating that the leak was deliberate, viral marketing by Rockstar. I thought it was a ridiculous concept at the time, but now, I'm not so sure. The "leaker" has made a lot of money off this situation, without doing any real damage to Rockstar.
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u/billylolol PC Master Race I7 6700k, Gtx 1070 Aug 27 '26
It most likely was a former Rockstar employee but the fact that people think it's a PR stunt are crazy. They have actual law enforcement and lawyers involved. They are clearly embarrassed about this leak.
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u/jvrodrigues Aug 27 '26
Surprised it was only 250k, would have expected a couple of million at least
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u/Chief_White_Halfoat Aug 27 '26
Comforting that there were less morons than expected?
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u/jvrodrigues Aug 27 '26
The coin reached a peak of 100 milion in volume, so there were enough idiots for cyberleek to be retiring somewhere southeast asia dirty rich.
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u/darokk Aug 27 '26
Volume doesn't mean much; it's how much liquidity the trading pool had for grabs.
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u/jvrodrigues Aug 27 '26
Well sure, but I would have at least expected a couple of mill, not 250k. It's not worth fucking up your whole life for 250k.
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u/Buried_and_Forgotten Aug 27 '26
Russians do it for a couple of Ks in Ukraine. If he manages to get away with it, good for him, no harm done in the end.
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u/Mnawab Specs/Imgur Here Aug 27 '26
OK, but that’s Russia, we’re safe from other countries. Also, he got money from the fees of the buys and sells. 250 K was just a lump sum he got at the end, but he probably made millions.
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u/Buried_and_Forgotten Aug 27 '26
Some people were speculating that he might be Russian at first. I forgot that the leak came from Rockstar India, but it's not like people there are doing much better.
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u/IAmYourFath SUPERNUCLEAR Aug 27 '26
Actually india is really rich, it's just very skewed cuz 90% of the population don't have real jobs, so the top 10% who work in IT or with real jobs make decent money, and then the top 1% are filthy rich, if u look at the gdp india is up there with the top countries. If this guy is a hacker he was prob making good money to begin with cuz he knows pcs and tech and stuff, not the avg indian trying to make meet ends and being piss poor and shit. Actually i just looked it up, india is 6th in the world just after the us, china, japan, germany and the uk
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u/CousinOkrii MSI 5090 SUPRIM | 7950X3D | 64GB DDR5 Aug 27 '26
He could never actually sell it for that much or it would crash the coin instantly.
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u/A_begger Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
apparently he funded the dev wallet from ku coin so they'll find him there, just need to get a subpoena approved
edit: realised kucoin is based in the Seychelles, it might not be so easy for the US to request information from a Seychelles based company for a client that likely never touched usd
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u/djdevilmonkey 5090 FE, 9800X3D, 64GB Aug 27 '26
Especially since he burned over $1M in dev tokens a few days ago lol. Maybe he fumbled, or maybe the $250K isn't accurate
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u/Hunefer1 Aug 27 '26
No he didn't fumble with burning "over $1M" in dev tokens. He would have never gotten anything close to $1M by selling them since that market is so illiquid that he would have immediately tanked the price by selling and only would have gotten a few hundred k like he did right now. But it's totally possible (and I think very likely) that he slowly sold coins over time during the days he was putting out leaks. This way the low liquidity is way less of a problem and it's also close to impossible to trace to him. I also think burning the dev tokens was planned from the start to gain trust.
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u/DexM23 Ryzen 7 5700X3D | 5700 XT | 32GB DDR4-3200 | 1440p144Hz Aug 27 '26
Who do you think received the coins people bought this leekcoin with?
These 250k where just the rest of the liquidity people had in that coinmarket
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u/Fidel_Cashflows Aug 27 '26
It may have been significantly more, how would they realistically know? This whole article (fucking Kotaku btw) is just based on 1 dudes post to a forum.
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u/Impressive_Head1238 Aug 27 '26
Least surprising Rug pull to date...
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u/JarethCutestoryJuD Aug 27 '26
Least surprising Rug pull to date...
Is it a rugpull? Wasnt this literally seen as giving money to the leeker as a thank you? Who was buying this thinking that it was going to make them money?
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u/Chemical-Agency-3997 Aug 27 '26
He could’ve taken donations in XMR and then it would’ve been actually hard to trace.
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u/Mnawab Specs/Imgur Here Aug 27 '26
Yes, but under the crypto more people were willing to donate because there was a chance they could’ve pulled out with him if they timed it right. It gave people more of a reason to invest in it, and when a crypto coin all of a sudden starts skyrocketing in value, it will start getting noticed from outside factors, which would also start pumping into it as well. The value went up to like 30 million.
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u/MegaManZer0 Aug 27 '26
I saw that the cash was just in transaction fees and it isn't really a rugpull, just a natural crash.
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u/Forymanarysanar 14600KF|RTX5080|64Gb DDR4|1TB SSD|2x8TB HDD Raid1 Aug 27 '26
>It seems a pretty small prize for gaining the attention of the world's authorities
In many countries $250000 can easily last entire lifetime and rockstar does not have magical cooperation from the whole world's authorities, in fact there are more authorities that won't give any fuck about them than there are who will.
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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ GTX 5080, AMD 9800X3D, 64GB DDR5 Aug 27 '26
It can last a lifetime, but if the leaker is 20 years old then the average draw would have to be about 4k a year, say 5k a year to account for interest. There's about $400/mo, which is great to have in every country but it's also not all that much. Maybe free rent for life.
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u/cadaada Aug 27 '26
That amount is something someone would have to work for 50~ years in brazil with minimum wage (if both get increased by inflation ofc), its not just "not all that much"
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u/Forymanarysanar 14600KF|RTX5080|64Gb DDR4|1TB SSD|2x8TB HDD Raid1 Aug 27 '26
Somewhere in the rural areas of Kazakhstan you can live your life perfectly fine on $400/mo, and no Rockstar will ever get you there.
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u/Able-Swing-6415 Aug 27 '26
But you're also living in rural Kazakhstan.. so I guess you win some, you lose some
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u/SapientApe_ Aug 27 '26
Access to some of the best potassium in eastern Europe, it's a win, win situation!
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u/Caipirinha-Aguada Aug 28 '26
In rural Brazil, that money can afford you bananas for a lifetime, it's also a lot of potassium.
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u/grilled_pc Aug 27 '26
It's not so much giving a fuck about rockstar but rockstar going to law enforcement to have this guy arrested.
The charges are big. Hacking a business and stealing their IP. If they indeed steal a fully functional build of the game, thats even bigger.
Illegally leaking the game.
Creating a shitcoin and profiting from their illegal activities.
Like this kind of stuff carries severe penalties and easily jail time. If this guy lives in a country with any kind of copywrite law, AML or extradition even to the US. They are going to be fucked. Rockstar is not going to stop until they are in jail.
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u/ddevilissolovely Aug 27 '26
The charges are big. Hacking a business and stealing their IP.
Tbh that doesn't seem that big when you lay it out like that.
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u/exophades Laptop Aug 27 '26
\Credits rolling**
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : ROCKSTAR GAMES
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u/Impossible_Ease_1460 Aug 27 '26
well duh crypto was involved, thats always how it ends. Seeing gameplay was fun while it lasted though
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u/Master_of_Ravioli R5 9600x | 32GB DDR5 | 2TB SSD | Intel Arc B580 Aug 27 '26
Crypto shitcoin gets rugpulled and the leak was a nothingburger?
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u/collinatk 5080 FE | 9800x3d Aug 27 '26
Wait you’re telling me the most obvious crypto pump and dump ever got dumped?
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u/iSaltyParchment 3600 | 1060 6GB | 32GB 3600 Aug 27 '26
What happened with that “the leaker burned all his coins” thing
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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz RTX 4080 stabbed in a loaf of bread. Aug 27 '26
As expected, although I thought he would pull at a higher point, maybe it's getting too hot for him and gotta run.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Aug 27 '26
If they get caught that money is going to evaporate. Even if it doesn't get seized as a criminal asset it's going straight to lawyers fees. $250k just isn't a lot of money.
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u/mrloko120 Aug 27 '26
They did make that one last post begging people to raise the market cap so he probably expected to make more than that.
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u/aprosarmosto Aug 27 '26
If you bought his crypto your voting rights should be revoked
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u/PhazePyre Aug 27 '26
Hey, where's all the people saying he burned his coin and how he was a Robin Hood figure and said we're dumb for thinking he was going to rug pull. Where are you? Here doggy doggy doggies.
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u/Bleezy79 7800X3D | 4070TI | 32gb @ 6400Mhz DDR5 | 3TB M.2 Aug 28 '26
Makes perfect sense to me. He was pretty straight forward in what he was about. He provided a service, asked for donations, realized he only had so long in the sun, and bailed out before getting caught. Seems like a pretty smart fellow IMO.
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u/notislant Aug 27 '26
OMG, THE CRYPTO SHITPOSTING SCAMMERS DID A RUGPULL?!
SAY IT AINT SO?!
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u/CharAznableLoNZ Aug 27 '26
I don't care. I won't be buying the game until it's deeply discounted on steam five years from now.
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u/fifiasd Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
I am waiting for it to be free on Epic in 13 years.
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u/Excellent_Place4977 Aug 27 '26
Not defending leek, but Rockstar made you pay to watch an ad is unethical as well.
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u/RankedFarting 5700X3D/ RTX 2070/ 32gb 3600Mhz Aug 27 '26
Bad day for people who own NFTs and think AI can create art.
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u/LeastResistancePath Aug 27 '26
For a moment, I thought it was guerilla marketing. When he mentioned burning tokens, it felt like the most hilarious tropes of crypto scam bros was being played out for laughs.
I wouldn't be surprised if it did turn out to be a Rockstar ploy. But I think they'd draw the line at financial crimes... Well, thanks to the trump admin, they'd be legitimate capitalist actions.
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u/ChewieSkittles53 PC Master Race Aug 27 '26
Can yall give me a tldr on why he chose a shitty memecoin in the big 26 instead of a simple donation link?
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u/MrDeeJayy Ryzen 7 5700X | AMD RX 6700 XT | DDR4-3200 32GB Aug 28 '26
Donations would have gone directly to them, and the transactions would likely have been very transparent. So transparent infact that rockstar would have had police raiding their address within 30 minutes.
As much as the memecoin is fucking dumb and shit, unlike most memecoins that are literally backed nothin and more nothin, at least cyberleek was smart enough to back his meme coin on something slightly more tangible than nothing: frequent leaks.
Tempted to larp and say i know cyberleek to see if rockstar sends goons to my door, would love to show them my medieval sword collection, see if they'll add any of them as weapons to gta 6.
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u/TomatoMasterRace Ryzen 7 7800x3d RX 9070 XT Aug 28 '26
TBF to him wasnt he basically saying "inflating my memecoin is the only way you can donate to me without me being traced". IE he was pretty transparent that it was a pump and dump.
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u/Mattrockj Intel I7-13700 / 4070ti / 64GB Ram / 4TB SSD Aug 28 '26
Alternatively, since he has nothing to lose anymore, he could drop the entire build online for free.
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u/Kremsi2711 Aug 27 '26
So many people defended him and praised him like a hero, he was just a scamer
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u/Acored84 Aug 27 '26
so not just that he stole code, he is also a scammer to random people in crypto?
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u/2ByteTheDecker Aug 27 '26
all of his leak videos included links to his memecoin shit, of all the victims in the world this is a group I'm finding it hard to draw sympathy for
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u/Acored84 Aug 27 '26
Oh Boy, that’s a new one. So let’s see where this is going and how many actually go after him
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u/Porkyrogue Aug 27 '26
Probably about 30 extremely well paid lawyers. Who not only want that on their resume but also some nice vacation money.
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u/Express_Ad5083 W11, 7 7800X3D, 9070XT, 32 GB DDR5, X670 X AX V2. Aug 27 '26
This subreddit had me believe fr that GTA VI for PC would release before GTA VI
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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 64GB RAM Aug 27 '26
Back in the day that's what asshole leakers did
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u/RicketCrickets Aug 27 '26
Today on yet another reason why crypto is just a giant pyramid scheme...
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u/harry_lostone I'm not toxic Aug 27 '26
i still like the guy. he fucked rockstar and then he fucked some crypto dumbfucks. i dont see any harm
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u/hiimtoddornot Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Lmao, and people were practically worshipping this guy. Just hoping genuinely good folk that are struggling didn't get duped too......
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