GTAForums user traced the crypto wallets of the GTA 6 leaker and calculated his earnings

The leaker going by CyberLeek, known for posting Grand Theft Auto VI material, may have pulled in more than $50,000 through a crypto scheme tied to the leaks.

GTAForums user Vice Cit ran an extensive investigation, tracing the chain of crypto wallets linked to CyberLeek website and coin. The findings were posted in two parts on the forum, and Reddit user uniquecartridge summarized the conclusions in simpler terms.

How the wallet scheme works

CyberLeek juggled a bunch of different crypto wallets to set up the website and the coin, but they all trace back to one central funding wallet. That wallet paid for the website, the leak uploads on Arweave (a decentralized storage network), and the coin launch.

Following that wallet payments backwards eventually leads to a wallet belonging to the crypto exchange KuCoin.

KuCoin requires ID verification, so if the exchange gets subpoenaed, authorities could potentially get the account holder ID and full transaction history.

The only loophole that could preserve CyberLeek anonymity is if a fake ID was used during registration.

Vice Cit doesn't think CyberLeek is a pro. Nothing here couldn't be pulled off with a few Google searches, and while they've clearly got some tech background, they don't seem experienced at actually covering a crypto trail.

How much CyberLeek has earned

Setup cost was about $29k. The funds are locked away in the liquidity pool, so it's not a typical rugpull scheme, though there is still a risk of the 270 million coins transferred to the private wallet getting dumped.

The main source of income appears to be transaction fees. The coin did $15M in volume on the first day, which comes out to roughly $30k in fees. Total fees earned so far are estimated at $40k to $60k, and at the current pace CyberLeek is clearing about $4,400 a day in fees, for as long as it keeps trading.

On top of that, 270 million tokens (27% of the total supply) never went into the pool. They're just sitting in a separate wallet worth about $391k right now, probably to be sold off slowly so it doesn't crash the price.

According to the investigation, this is likely why the GTA VI leaks trickle out instead of dropping all at once. If the coin stays relevant, the fees keep coming in, and even the "vote on the next leak" polls might just be there to keep trading volume up.

Why the site is offline but the leaks aren't going anywhere

Just because the CyberLeek website is temporarily down doesn't mean the leaker got arrested or deanonymized. All the material is hosted on Arweave, a decentralized storage network with no single company in charge.

Once something's uploaded there, it's basically impossible to fully take down. Take-Two can get individual links (gateways) removed with a DMCA takedown, but new ones just pop up to replace them, so even if CyberLeek current links get taken down or knocked offline, they can just point people to a different gateway and the leaks stay up.