Game Of Thrones (Season 7) Episode V Script Leaked — Hacker Demands Millions Inwards Ransom

The hacking grouping that recently hacked HBO has but dropped its 2nd trove of documents, including a calendar month emails of 1 of the company's executives, together with a detailed script of the upcoming 5th episode of "Game of Thrones" Season 7, gear upwards to live aired on August 13.

The latest unloosen is the 2nd leak from the hackers who claimed to convey obtained or then 1.5 terabytes of information from HBO, next the unloosen of upcoming episodes of "Ballers" together with "Room 104," together with a script of the 4th episode of "Game of Thrones."

With the unloosen of some other half-gigabyte sample of its stolen HBO data, the hacking grouping has finally demanded a ransom worth millions of dollars from the amusement giant inward social club to foreclose farther leaks.

The latest HBO information dump includes company's several internal documents, including emails, job agreements, fiscal residual sheets, together with marketing-strategy PDFs, along alongside the script of the yet-to-air 5th episode of Game of Thrones, all watermarked alongside "HBO is Falling."

The hackers reportedly sent a video message to HBO President together with CEO Richard Plepler together with demanded his "six-month salary inward Bitcoin" — which is almost $6 Million — equally a ransom for the stolen information otherwise they'll maintain to leak.

In the video letter, written past times "Mr. Smith" posing equally the grouping of hackers behind the leak, the hackers demanded an unspecified sum of money from Plepler.

"We successfully breached into your huge network. HBO was 1 of our hard targets to bargain with, but nosotros succeeded (it took almost 6 months)," the missive of the alphabet reads equally quoted past times Wired. 

"Our need is clear together with Non-Negotiable: We desire XXXX dollars to halt leaking your Data. HBO spends 12 1 G m for Market Research together with v 1 G m for GOT7 advertisements. So view us some other budget for your advertisements!"

Last calendar week when the hackers released the outset batch of stolen data, HBO confirmed the cyber assault on its network but did non confirm how much information the hackers convey stolen together with whether it included upcoming episodes of the widely watched Game Of Thrones.

The ransom banking company annotation adds that the deadline for that payment is entirely iii days, but does non include a date. The video missive of the alphabet ends alongside an ikon of the "Night King" villain from Game of Thrones alongside his arms raised—the give-and-take "standing" inward 1 paw together with "falling" inward the other.

Data Breaches also published some parts of the ransom need the hackers, which telephone telephone themselves white hats, sent to HBO.

In an internal e-mail sent to to the HBO staff lastly week, Plepler said: "Many people convey expressed especial delineate of piece of work organisation almost our e-mail system. At this time, nosotros create non believe that our e-mail organisation equally a whole has been compromised, but the forensic review is ongoing."

HBO spokesperson Jeff Cusson told the publication that the fellowship had been expecting to a greater extent than information to emerge from its information breach, but that the company's "forensic review is ongoing."

"The review to appointment has non given us a argue to believe that our e-mail organisation equally a whole has been compromised," Cusson says. "We maintain to operate or then the clock alongside exterior cyber safety firms together with police enforcement to resolve the incident."

If hackers convey indeed stolen 1.5 terabytes of information from HBO together with the fellowship pass upwards to pay the ransom, users should hold off to a greater extent than leaks of upcoming episodes from their favourite shows.

At this moment, it is all the same unclear who is behind the hack. We volition update the flush alongside the latest information.

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