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We have new details on the Grand Theft Auto 6 leak that broke this morning.
So far, we found that a developer uploaded a demo reel online that had a few seconds of footage from the game. Other outlets reported that this came from a fired employee, but as it turns out, that was not true.
We Missed This Leak For Weeks
It isn’t clear why fans thought that this developer was fired. This may have been a presumption by the original redditor who found it.
As reported by RockstarIntel, this video was actually posted two months ago. This means that this Vimeo was hiding in plain sight this whole time.
This seems to be an unfortunate error of omission on the developer’s part. Vimeo does have a system that lets you keep videos private for people without the link.
So either someone used Vimeo’s backend (or worse, just the search engine) to find this video, or a hacker used social engineering to fool someone into showing them this video.
What Else Was In The Leak?
We described the video of the bicycle footage in our earlier report. The clip description in Vimeo confirmed that this is for Grand Theft Auto 6.
After the bicycle footage, there is a clip of a female NPC animation climbing out of a 4×4 truck in two different ways. Contrary to other rumors, this was not confirmed to be Lucia. While the resemblance is obvious, these could just be placeholder assets.
This part of the footage also shows recognizable locations like the Boardwalk Hotel and Ocean Drive. So this bolsters the argument that this is for Rockstar’s upcoming game.
Is This Developer In Trouble?
The developer may be in trouble now because of the leaked footage. As we reported earlier, the original video link has been pulled, and this footage is now getting NDA’d anywhere where fans are sharing it.
Content creator Badger Goodger shared an interesting opinion about this:
And here I was thinking that latest GTA VI leak was by one of the employees who was recently fired.
Turns out it was uploaded two months ago and nobody noticed it until now. It still seems like an NDA violation, so I’m surprised they’d even upload it to begin with.
To be clear, Rockstar has yet to confirm that they took action on this footage, or that it is from Grand Theft Auto 6. It’s possible that the employee is himself filing these NDAs after taking the video offline himself.
We will have to wait for when – or if – Rockstar will comment on this at all.
