As if the leak of episodes past times hackers together with the accidental airing of an upcoming episode of Game of Thrones past times HBO itself were non enough, a notorious grouping of hackers took over the official Twitter together with Facebook accounts for HBO equally good equally Game of Thrones Midweek night.
The hacker grouping from Saudi Arabia, dubbed OurMine, claimed responsibleness for the hack, posting a message on both HBO's official Twitter together with Facebook accounts, which read:
"Hi, OurMine are here, nosotros are but testing your security, HBO team, delight contact us to upgrade the security," followed past times a contact link for the group.This message was followed past times closed to other one, wherein hackers asked people to brand the hashtag #HBOhacked trending on Twitter, which it did.
Ourmine is the same grouping of hackers from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that previously compromised social media accounts of major companies CEOs, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, together with Facebook-owned virtual reality society Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe.
In virtually of the cases, Ourmine hackers gain access to the social media accounts past times credentials exposed inwards previous, publicly known information breaches.
However, the hacking grouping does non appear to e'er become beyond but demonstrating its mightiness to accept over the account, without doing much impairment to the accounts or its protected information.
OurMine offers companies safety against hacking, charging upwardly to $5,000 for a "scan" of their social media accounts, site safety holes, together with other safety vulnerabilities, together with advertises its commercial services past times breaking into famous accounts.
HBO managed to take away the offending tweets soon afterwards the hackers posted them.
Just yesterday, inwards a devastating blunder, HBO Kingdom of Spain accidentally aired Episode vi of Game of Thrones flavor vii 5 days prior to its official premiere.
The pop entertaining society is also facing a threat from hacker or grouping of hackers who claimed to lead maintain obtained nearly 1.5 terabytes of information from HBO.
Over ii weeks ago, the unknown hackers dropped episodes of "Ballers" together with "Room 104," along amongst a script of the quaternary episode of Game of Thrones on the internet.
This leak was followed past times closed to other dump of a half-gigabyte sample of stolen data, including the company's emails, utilize agreements, residue sheets, together with the script of the upcoming GOT episode, demanding a ransom—nearly $6 Million inwards Bitcoins.
Although it was revealed that the society offered hackers $250,000 for extending the ransom payment deadline past times 1 week, the proposal patently failed to satisfy hackers, together with they threatened to liberate to a greater extent than information every Dominicus until the amount ransom was paid.
