GTA 6 Original Leaker Resurfaces, Claims Game's Source Code Is Floating Around Online
- Sagar Mankar
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The hacker responsible for one of the most significant Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks in history has made a surprise reappearance, and he has some eyebrow-raising things to say about the game's source code.
Back in September 2022, a massive wave of GTA 6 content spilled onto the internet. Gameplay test footage, weapons, vehicles, NPC details, and even map locations were all exposed.
The person behind it was Arion Kurtaj, a British teenager and member of the ransomware group Lapsus$.
It was a leak that shook the gaming world and put Rockstar Games in damage control mode almost overnight.
Kurtaj did not escape the consequences. By late 2023, he was sentenced to an indefinite stay in a secure psychiatric hospital, with a judge ruling that he "remained a high risk to the public."
Now, years later, he is back in the conversation. A set of Snapchat photos reportedly taken from inside his prison cell surfaced on March 8, 2026. The images showed Kurtaj at his cell door and sitting on his bed. In one caption, he wrote, "Bro, HMP dead, waiting trial for some bullshit hacking charge," giving fans a raw and unfiltered look at his current situation.
That alone would have been enough to stir up the GTA community, but it was his comments about the game's source code that really got people talking. According to messages that also appeared online, Kurtaj exchanged words with at least two other individuals, one of them going by the name Omar. In those messages, he claimed that GTA 6's source code is out there somewhere.
