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GTA 6 Leak Spurs Rockstar to Tighten Security and Return to Office
The 2022 leak of unfinished GTA 6 footage prompted Rockstar to reverse remote‑work policies, limit server access, and plan a return to office, while developers faced new leaks in 2024.
14 Oct 2026 0 reads Compiled with AI
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In 2022 a massive leak of GTA 6 footage appeared online, showing unfinished scenes and giving fans a glimpse of the still‑in‑development open‑world game.
Aaron Garbut said it felt like ‘somebody’s wading through your dirty washing’ and that the clips were ‘inside your head’, describing the experience as weirdly invasive and hard to deal with emotionally.
Following the leak, Rockstar reversed remote‑work policies and in 2024 required all employees to be in the office five days a week.
Rockstar also banned developers from accessing the company’s servers and tools from home, forcing them to use vacation or sick days for childcare or emergencies.
Head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe said a hybrid model is unlikely soon because the security team would not be comfortable with a game as desirable as GTA 6 being in many environments.
In August 2024 a group called Cyberleek began sharing GTA 6 gameplay footage online again, frustrating developers who felt they had already made many sacrifices, and later claimed to have finished leaking the game’s clips.