GTA 6 files from the 2022 hack resurface, says Insider Gaming
Four years to the day after the 90 development videos landed on GTAForums, Insider Gaming said on September 18, 2026 that 192GB of files from that same breach are now spreading, mixing early GTA 6 map work with cut GTA 5 content.
: Polygon joins the sources: 3D building models for GTA 6 in the batch, an age put at a 2015 prototype rather than a 2023 build, and two reports that do not trace the files to the same leak.
Insider Gaming says on September 18, 2026 that 192GB of GTA 5 and GTA 6 files are spreading online, and traces them to the September 2022 breach at Rockstar Games, the one that put 90 development videos on GTAForums in a 3GB file. Polygon reported the same day that the GTA 6 share holds maps and 3D building models, most likely from a 2015 prototype rather than a 2023 build.
Insider Gaming wrote on September 18, 2026 that 192GB of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto VI content is circulating online. The site says this is data from the 2022 breach at Rockstar Games resurfacing rather than a fresh intrusion: the files had existed since then, passed between a handful of people, and went out to a wider group over recent months before spreading.
The GTA 6 share takes a few lines in the Insider Gaming report: early map assets, described as very low quality renders that resemble areas already seen in the trailers and in the Extended Look of August 27, 2026. GTA creator TJGM has been posting them on his X account. The Vice City map as Rockstar Games has shown it since the December 4, 2023 trailer remains the only one the studio has published.
Polygon reported the same day that 3D building models for GTA 6 sit in the batch alongside the maps. The two reports do not trace those files to the same leak: Insider Gaming ties them to the 2022 breach at Rockstar Games, while Polygon calls the batch a GTA 5 source code leak and measures it against the 2023 one, which held about four or five GB. On the age of the GTA 6 material, Polygon takes the earlier reading, a very early prototype from 2015 rather than a 2023 build, with no definitive proof either way.
Most of the batch covers GTA 5. Insider Gaming describes a file named dlcliberty_game.date151.rel, of the kind used to lay out zones on the game’s map, opened in the CodeWalker editor: it shows the outline of a Liberty City expansion that could have shipped as DLC, larger than the Liberty City of GTA 4. The same haul holds material from a cancelled single-player DLC called Agent Trevor, with mission names and locations, spotted by X user affmalyt. Polygon writes that nothing proves the claim, put forward by TJGM among others, that this Liberty City was reassigned to GTA 6.
On September 18, 2022, a user going by teapotuberhacker put 90 development videos of GTA 6 on GTAForums, roughly 50 minutes of work in progress, in a 3GB file. The 192GB described four years later, to the day, runs sixty-four times that size. Rockstar Games put the cost of the 2022 hack at 5 million dollars and thousands of hours of work, and Arion Kurtaj was given an indefinite hospital order on December 22, 2023.
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive have published nothing about the files. The precedent is recent: after gameplay videos began appearing on August 18, 2026, the studio waited eight days before publishing a letter to its community on August 26, calling the leaks “heartbreaking for our team” and holding the release on November 19, 2026.
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