Hack Brief: HBO Shows and a Game of Thrones Script Land Online
This weekend, the same email landed in the inboxes of an untold number of entertainment journalists. !” screamed the subject header, while the email itself, addressed "to all mankind," promised “the greatest leak of space era” and a link to a site that hosts an unreleased Game of Thrones script and not-yet-aired episodes of Ballers, Insecure, Room 104, and Barry. “There has been a cyber incident directed at the company which has resulted in some stolen proprietary information, including some of our programming,” wrote HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler in an email to employees. “We successfully penetrated HBO’s huge network and gathered most imporatnt files and films & scripts and so on,” one of the hackers wrote in an email to WIRED, promising both full episodes of Game of Thrones and upcoming feature films. Smith,” also claimed to have “obtained alot about HBO’s staff and internal stuff.” None of this has been verified, and hackers frequently overstate their claims.
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