Rockstar Games’ ability to keep GTA 6 a secret has taken another hit as the company was exposed to yet another major data breach, which saw tons of new, never-before-seen GTA 6 content leak. On the other hand, much of it might be outdated by now.
Alleged GTA 6 gameplay footage leaked online on August 18, 2026, with everyone lapping it up.
The leaks arrived mere days before the Netflix GTA showcase, and it might not be the end, as the GTA 6 leaker has threatened Rockstar and other major publishers with further action.
What we’ve seen might not be final, though, with Metadata suggesting the leaks are old.
GTA 6 Leaks Allegedly Not New
Insider Gaming was contacted directly by an anonymous source regarding the new GTA 6 leaks:
“Some info on the basketball video: It was encoded with FFmpeg 6.1 (Lavc60.31.102/Lavf60.16.100), which was released in November 2023. That means the file was created in this format at the earliest starting November 2023. The underlying footage itself could be older, though the encoding only tells us when it was compressed/converted, and that process also stripped out any original metadata that might have shown the actual recording date.”
Now, there has been some back and forth over this.
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Reputable leaker NateTheHate believes the leaks are over a year old and aren’t from the rumored GTA 6 previews happening—although they couldn’t place an exact timeframe on them.
Whereas Spider-Vice, on the GTA Forum, said: “The ffmpeg build is from late 2023. Not the video. Someone or some software using an older ffmpeg build doesn’t mean that’s the date of the actual video.”
So, anything you’ve seen for the leaks could be a distant memory compared to what we’ve got now, several months out from GTA 6’s full launch.
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Whether they’re from 203 or 2024, they’re still likely several years old, and the Netflix GTA 6 event could reflect this.
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