The latest unloose is the 2nd leak from the hackers who claimed to convey obtained or then 1.5 terabytes of information from HBO, next the unloose of upcoming episodes of "Ballers" too "Room 104," too a script of the quaternary episode of "Game of Thrones."
With the unloose 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 inwards lodge to foreclose farther leaks.
The latest HBO information dump includes company's several internal documents, including emails, work agreements, fiscal residual sheets, too marketing-strategy PDFs, along amongst the script of the yet-to-air 5th episode of Game of Thrones, all watermarked amongst "HBO is Falling."
The hackers reportedly sent a video message to HBO President too CEO Richard Plepler too demanded his "six-month salary inwards Bitcoin" — which is almost $6 Million — every bit a ransom for the stolen information otherwise they'll conk on to leak.
"We successfully breached into your huge network. HBO was i of our hard targets to bargain with, but nosotros succeeded (it took close 6 months)," the missive of the alphabet reads every bit quoted past times Wired.
"Our need is clear too Non-Negotiable: We desire XXXX dollars to halt leaking your Data. HBO spends 12 i K 1000 for Market Research too five i K 1000 for GOT7 advertisements. So visit us some other budget for your advertisements!"Last calendar week when the hackers released the outset batch of stolen data, HBO confirmed the cyber assail on its network but did non confirm how much information the hackers convey stolen too whether it included upcoming episodes of the widely watched Game Of Thrones.
The ransom banknote adds that the deadline for that payment is solely iii days, but does non include a date. The video missive of the alphabet ends amongst an ikon of the "Night King" villain from Game of Thrones amongst his arms raised—the give-and-take "standing" inwards i paw too "falling" inwards 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 electronic mail sent to to the HBO staff lastly week, Plepler said: "Many people convey expressed especial line of piece of work organisation close our e-mail system. At this time, nosotros produce non believe that our electronic mail organisation every bit a whole has been compromised, but the forensic review is ongoing."
HBO spokesperson Jeff Cusson told the publication that the society 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 electronic mail organisation every bit a whole has been compromised," Cusson says. "We conk on to operate or then the clock amongst exterior cyber safety firms too police line enforcement to resolve the incident."If hackers convey indeed stolen 1.5 terabytes of information from HBO too the society turn down to pay the ransom, users should await to a greater extent than leaks of upcoming episodes from their favourite shows.
At this moment, it is yet unclear who is behind the hack. We volition update the storey amongst the latest information.
