HBO social media gets hacked, Game of Thrones episodes leak early

Many people may be excited over the new episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ but HBO is having a tough time with hackers, who recently over took the premium cable channel’s Twitter account. Andrew Wallenstein of Variety caught screen shots of the hacker’s post before they were removed.

A separate hacking collective last month stole a massive amount of data from the company’s private servers which included scripts for future shows, video files of complete unreleased episodes, and even the personal information of cast and crew of various productions. Those hackers are demanding millions in ransom and slowly leaking out chunks of data, getting so bold as post scripts of future ‘GoT’ episodes on August 8th. The reported figure they are asking for is $6 million. Slashflim has a comprehensive timeline of the hack and how it has progressed since the beginning of this month. 

Youtube channel PopTrigger lays it all out and compares it the well-documented hack of Sony Pictures and it appears this HBO hack is much bigger and could be more devastating especially with the potential for the finale of ‘GoT’ to be released illegally online. Beware there is some NSFW language.

Fox Business reports it’s believe an inside source and how HBO is dealing with the situation.

As if HBO was not having enough issues with protecting their precious data, they mistakenly posted the latest episode of their breadwinning series ‘Game of Thrones’ four days early for European subscribers. It was up for an hour to watch on demand, before being removed but has already been pirated. For more on that story go here.