Take-Two Hits Microsoft and Discord With Federal Subpoenas Over the GTA 6 Cyberleek Leak

Take-Two Interactive has gone legal. On August 20 the Rockstar Games parent company filed multiple DMCA subpoenas in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, demanding that Microsoft and Discord hand over identifying records on every account that touched the Cyberleek leak network during the most damaging pre-launch GTA 6 footage spree the industry has ever seen.

The petitions, first reported by Kotaku's Ethan Gach and verified by IGN, give both companies until September 4 to comply. They reach for account IDs, registration emails, login IPs, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox credentials, MachineGuid and MSA device identifiers, and any GTA, Rockstar, or Cyberleek content stored on those accounts' OneDrive drives. The Microsoft filing even references a GitHub repository where infringing clips were mirrored and asks for every internal Microsoft business and investigative record tied to the persona.

Kotaku's copy of the subpoena names six Discord communities by ID, including servers labeled CYBERLEEK, CINEMATICROCKSTAR, and Surfer24k (alongside its replacement handles cyberleek_west and surwest), plus the brand guild discord.gg/odyssey under the Odyssey.gg banner. Most awkward of all, the filing also names the editors' server of DarkViperAU, the long-running GTA 5 YouTuber and Twitch streamer Matthew Judge.

The Crossfire Catches a Streamer Who Says He Knows Nothing

Judge has spent the past week posting detailed breakdowns of the leaked clips and became collateral damage the moment his editors' server appeared in the filing. He took to X within hours of the news breaking. They are asking for my discord info, I am mentioned by name, he wrote. I do not know anything. That is not my editors discord. There are not even any clips of the leaks in either of my Discords. I am confused. I did say he cannot drive multiple times, so maybe I caused him to write Cyberleek cannot drive on the most recent clips. Everyone is talking about these leaks. I am not special, hopefully.

The episode is a tidy illustration of how wide a DMCA subpoena's net can be cast. Take-Two's lawyers only need a sworn declaration that the request is meant to protect copyrighted material. They do not need probable cause, and they do not need to clear their server list with a judge before sending it. Judge's name and his editors' Discord are now in a federal court filing as a person of interest, and his recourse is mostly a strongly worded tweet and the hope that Take-Two will not pursue him once the real culprit is found.

What Cyberleek Actually Is, and Why Take-Two Is So Angry

Cyberleek is not just a leaker. Whoever is behind the handle has been posting six gameplay videos over four consecutive days, each watermarked with a memecoin pump message. The latest clip, dropped on August 21, is a supercar drive through Vice City streets that ends with the watermark HIGHER MARKET CAP = MORE LEEKS. IGN traced the $CYBERLEEK token to a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, meaning the unmasking is not only about copyright. It is also about the person lining their pockets while torching Rockstar's carefully controlled pre-launch narrative.

The clips themselves are uncomfortably good. The puddle reflections in the driving footage are the kind of detail Rockstar would want to control down to the lighting pass, and the placeholder-heavy UI in the plane flyover strongly suggests a real playable build, not a stitched fake. If Cyberleek has a QA tester on the inside feeding them a dated slice of the game, every leaked minute is a marketing asset that Rockstar cannot monetize. If it is an external breach, it is a security failure Rockstar will need to explain to Take-Two's board.

The Clock Is Now Ticking for Microsoft and Discord

Both companies have about two weeks to assemble the requested records. Discord in particular has been on the wrong end of these requests often enough to have a published process, and Microsoft has a long history of responding to DMCA subpoenas on the timetable courts set. Once either side produces data, the trail likely runs through the OneDrive and Xbox linkages first, which is where Microsoft's cooperation matters more than Discord's. A single linked Xbox account on the Cyberleek persona could unravel the whole persona.

There is also a real chance this hits a wall. Discord has fought subpoenas it considers overbroad before, and the inclusion of an unrelated creator's editors' server is precisely the kind of detail that prompts a pushback. Even a partial compliance that reveals nothing useful still gives Take-Two's lawyers a paper trail to work from, and it chills whoever is still out there considering the next Cyberleek move.

Rockstar Still Says Nothing, and the Netflix Reveal Looms

Rockstar has not commented on the leak or the subpoena. Take-Two has not commented either. The closest either company has come to a public statement is the legal filings themselves. That silence is loud, and it stands in sharp contrast to the official Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look reveal locked for August 27 on Netflix, which will premiere as a timed exclusive for six hours before it lands on YouTube.

It is hard to imagine a worse setup for that broadcast. The reveal will now be measured against four days of leaked gameplay the legal team is trying to erase, and against a federal filing that drags an innocent streamer into the crossfire. Cyberleek has effectively turned the launch countdown into a courtroom drama, and Take-Two is betting that September 4 produces a name they can serve. If the name arrives, Rockstar's marketing machine gets to reset. If it does not, GTA 6 ships in November with a leak-shaped hole in the launch story, and every other publisher watches how Microsoft and Discord treated this subpoena when their own builds start circling in group chats.

Either way, the Cyberleek saga just stopped being a leak story and became a precedent one. Federal subpoenas over a memecoin-fueled gameplay dump is a brand new template, and Take-Two is the first studio to actually file the paperwork.