U.S. prosecutors bring charged an Iran-based hacker amongst hacking into HBO's calculator system, leaking unaired episodes of Game of Thrones scripts too demanding $6million (£4.5m) inwards Bitcoins every bit ransom.
According to an indictment filed on Tuesday inwards U.S District Court inwards Manhattan defendant Behzad Mesri of calculator fraud, wire fraud, extortion too identity theft.
Mesri is a fellow member of Turk Black Hat Security hacking team, who defaced hundreds of websites inwards the U.S. too other countries. He has too worked on behalf of the Iranian armed forces to attacks against Israel's armed forces systems, nuclear software systems, too infrastructure.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said, "He volition never survive able to locomote exterior of Islamic Republic of Iran without fearfulness of existence arrested too brought hither to aspect upward these charges," Kim said. "The retentiveness of American police delineate enforcement is real long."
During May, Mesri had launched a stimulate to gain an unauthorized access to HBO's servers through employee user accounts. He succeeded, fifty-fifty though the theatre has a sophisticated defense forcefulness system.
"Over the side yesteryear side dyad of months, he successfully compromised multiple user accounts inwards gild to obtain access to the media giant's servers," courtroom documents say.
"Through the cast of the intrusions into HBO's systems, Mr. Mesri was responsible for stealing confidential too proprietary information including... scripts too plot summaries for unaired programming, including exactly non express to episodes of Game of Thrones."
It is alleged that he had stolen close 1.5TB of information too was started a stimulate for ransom amount. He sent hundreds of e-mail to HBO employees that read: "Hi to All losers" Yes it's true! HBO is hacked!"
However, it is nevertheless unclear whether whatever ransom money was paid or not.
Mr. Mesri has non yet commented on the charges.
According to an indictment filed on Tuesday inwards U.S District Court inwards Manhattan defendant Behzad Mesri of calculator fraud, wire fraud, extortion too identity theft.
Mesri is a fellow member of Turk Black Hat Security hacking team, who defaced hundreds of websites inwards the U.S. too other countries. He has too worked on behalf of the Iranian armed forces to attacks against Israel's armed forces systems, nuclear software systems, too infrastructure.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said, "He volition never survive able to locomote exterior of Islamic Republic of Iran without fearfulness of existence arrested too brought hither to aspect upward these charges," Kim said. "The retentiveness of American police delineate enforcement is real long."
During May, Mesri had launched a stimulate to gain an unauthorized access to HBO's servers through employee user accounts. He succeeded, fifty-fifty though the theatre has a sophisticated defense forcefulness system.
"Over the side yesteryear side dyad of months, he successfully compromised multiple user accounts inwards gild to obtain access to the media giant's servers," courtroom documents say.
"Through the cast of the intrusions into HBO's systems, Mr. Mesri was responsible for stealing confidential too proprietary information including... scripts too plot summaries for unaired programming, including exactly non express to episodes of Game of Thrones."
It is alleged that he had stolen close 1.5TB of information too was started a stimulate for ransom amount. He sent hundreds of e-mail to HBO employees that read: "Hi to All losers" Yes it's true! HBO is hacked!"
However, it is nevertheless unclear whether whatever ransom money was paid or not.
Mr. Mesri has non yet commented on the charges.
