Rockstar Reacts To GTA 6 Leak: Here’s The Fallout

With a leak of this magnitude, it’s natural to assume that a delay is on the horizon, as the folks over at Rockstar enter a cooldown phase to assess the situation and adjust their priorities accordingly. But it appears that the studio is looking to deliver the game as per its original schedule. In its official statement, the studio notes that the security breach doesn’t have “any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects.”

The statement further adds that work on GTA 6, which was first officially confirmed in February of 2022, will “continue as planned.” However, the company is still playing it coy with a release timeline, and only adds that the game will be released “when it is ready.” As for the leak itself, the studio hasn’t shared any technical details as to how exactly the leakster going by the username “teapotuberhacker” got into its systems and pulled sensitive data such as in-development footage as well as, allegedly, the source codes of GTA 6.

According to now-pulled details posted on GTAForums, the bad actor made his way inside via the studio’s Slack group, but that claim still remains unverified. Industry watchers have so far estimated that GTA 6 will be out in 2025. In its official announcement earlier this year, Rockstar also confirmed that development on the game was “underway.”