We have some shocking new allegations surrounding the Grand Theft Auto V leak.
We reported on the leak all the way back in November 2022. As far as most gamers will remember, the young hacker who leaked an early build of Grand Theft Auto 6 also leaked Grand Theft Auto V. But as it turns out, that wasn’t the full story.
As alleged by whistleblowers who worked at Rockstar and FiveM, Rockstar’s own current employees were involved in the leak. While they don’t know the identity of the real person who got the Grand Theft Auto V source code, they know that people at alt:V helped leak it.
To be specific, the whistleblowers name alt:V leader Tuxick, and other members Heron, Vektor, and Zziger, are all involved in the leak. For those who didn’t know, alt:V is a Grand Theft Auto roleplay server, just like FiveM. As it turns out, alt:V’s members had actually been trying to get their hands on the source code for some time.
They got in contact with the person who was selling Grand Theft Auto V’ssource code through an intermediary using the handle TickleMePickle. And then, the four abovementioned members pooled € 7,000 to buy the code. They would shortly leak the code to the public on cloud storage site Mediafire.
But that’s not the whole story. The whistleblowers share evidence that Tuxick, who was head of the developer team at alt:V, made the deal to buy Grand Theft Auto V two months after he started talking to Rockstar New York’s Ethan Hirsch about joining the company. They go ahead with this leak and successfully join Rockstar, to leave alt:V and set to work on FiveM, which is now owned by Rockstar.
And there’s another person in this story, but not someone from alt:V. Disquse is part of the FiveM team, one of the original developers there who came over to Rockstar after they were acquired. Tuxick allegedly invited Disquse to help them raise money and join the Grand Theft Auto V leak.
Because Disquse already had a job at Rockstar, he declined. Of course, as a Rockstar employee, he was set to get access to the source code already. The whistleblowers don’t blame Disquse for not revealing what he knew about the leak to Rockstar, because he assumed the best out of Tuxick.
And because those alt:V developers were hired to work on FiveM, they also got official access to the source code, after harming Rockstar by leaking what they got their hands on. The whistleblowers then claim that Tuxick got Disquse fired from FiveM and Rockstar, carrying the implication that Disquse is one of the whistleblowers himself.
With the gravity of these allegations, we aren’t quite able to verify any of them. But we expect that Rockstar is doing some investigations right now, and we may very well get an official statement from them soon. Take-Two Interactive have made a reputation of not being lenient to hackers, or their employees. So one can imagine what they would do to hackers who directly harmed them and proceeded to get paid by them.
This is part of a longer string of allegations being made against Rockstar and Fivem on a webpage that is now offline. You can read the Wayback Machine archive of the page here.
