Batu69 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Hackers have stolen proprietary information from the media giant HBO. The leak includes a confidential outline for the fourth episode of the current Game of Thrones season, and episodes of Ballers, Barry, Insecure, and Room 104 are among the loot. The Game of Thrones leak doesn't include the full episode, but there are plenty of spoilers (none are mentioned in this article). It appears that yet another large media outlet has fallen victim to a high-profile hack. After Sony and, indirectly, Netflix, hackers have now compromised the network of the American cable and television network HBO. Sunday evening a mysterious email was sent to reporters, announcing the prominent breach. “Hi to all mankind. The greatest leak of cyber space era is happening. What’s its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its HBO and Game of Thrones……!!!!!!” the email read. While several reports were published, the first by Entertainment Weekly, the actual leaked files were not widely available on the usual pirate sites. However, a few hours ago a website appeared online that claims to hold the ‘treasure trove.’ Winter-leak.com, a reference to the famous Game of Thrones “Winter is Coming” phrase, does indeed list several files that appear to come from HBO. “In a complicate operation, we successfully penetrated in to the HBO Internal Network, Emails, technical platforms, and database and got precious and confidential stuff that blaze your eyes,” the hacker, or hackers write on their website. The hackers claim to have 1.5 terabytes of data from the company. So far, previously unreleased episodes of Ballers, Barry, Insecure and Room 104 are featured on the site. However, there are also three separate archives listed, with over a terabyte of data. Most prominent, perhaps, is a preliminary outline of the fourth episode of the current Game of Thrones season, which will air this coming Sunday. At TorrentFreak, we always strive to find proof for reported leaks, and from what we’ve seen and gathered, it does indeed appear to be the real deal. The Game of Thrones information, for example, lists a preliminary outline of the fourth episode of season 7, including many spoilers. As can be seen below, the outline itself is watermarked by the hackers, with the tagline “HBO is falling.” Perhaps even more unusual, the leak also includes a video, featuring Game of Thrones images, the leaders, and a textual outline of the episode. As with the outline, the videos are available for the third and fourth episode of season 7. HBO’s chairman and CEO, Richard Plepler, has confirmed that the company’s infrastructure was breached, but didn’t mention what information was accessed. He sent an email to employees a few hours ago, informing them about the “cyber incident.” “As most of you have probably heard by now, there has been a cyber incident directed at the company which has resulted in some stolen proprietary information, including some of our programming,” he wrote. “Any intrusion of this nature is obviously disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us. I can assure you that senior leadership and our extraordinary technology team, along with outside experts, are working round the clock to protect our collective interests.” The full contents of the leaks have yet to be analyzed. It’s doubtful that any Game of Thrones episodes will leak, but there’s likely to be a lot of confidential information in the copied data, which HBO would otherwise prefer to keep to itself. HBO has already mentioned that it’s doing everything in its power to prevent the leaks from spreading any further. In addition, they are also working with law enforcement to track down the people responsible. TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Not beneficial too downloaders as past hacks on other video distributors so more of a security issue ..Not the 1st time i dont think last year a few eps leaked online before they came out .. this is boring because HBO have very little content anyone would want and this show has less than 2 seasons too go . Over all they have less content than any of the others even back in the 90s early 2000s I bought showtime or cinemax instead .. These channels use too be about movies and HBO always showed the same ones over and over for 30days and now days you can get movies on the internet as soon as released so who cares other than one or two tv shows HBO is crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Quote HBO Is Freaking Out Over This Game Of Thrones Leak May 8, 2016 A Game of Thrones leaker has been spoiling episodes online and HBO is freaking out. The YouTuber — who goes by the name “Frikidoctor” — isn’t leaking actual episodes, though. He’s merely been filming himself talking in Spanish about what is happening in the episode, framing them as “predictions.” He wrote on his channel page: “I cannot put spoilers for the 3rd episode of the 6th season of Game of Thrones, because HBO forbids it. But we can always count predictions, theories, and make analysis of what will happen. And who knows, maybe guess everything.” Predictions and theories...riiiiiight. HBO is doing its best to stamp out the leaks, but a Reddit Game of Thrones spoiler page is alive and well. The Spanish spoiler did an AMA for the site last week. He asked in a Reddit thread: "So HBO took down my last video, even if it does not have a single frame of copyrighted content. It's just me saying what is going to happen in the third chapter. Any American lawyers around? Is talking about spoilers illegal?" It’s not clear, but that doesn’t mean HBO is going to be taking any chances. Because of the last year’s season 5 leaks, HBO has been withholding advance videos from journalists who review the show, prompting this site to file an FOIA request for President Obama's advance copies of season 6. However, that didn’t stop Frikidoctor from getting a hold of videos and talking about them. For now, his videos have been taken down. Still, GoT fans: tread lightly! You might bump into a spoiler! Game Of Thrones Leaks HBO http://www.refinery29.com/2016/05/110285/game-of-thrones-leak-youtube in season 6 some leaked too but i never watch them i just wait tell after they air too get really good copies, hackers that release stuff too early just cause trouble for P2P and downloaders that's why CM8 waited tell almost time for the movies too come out retail before they posted DVDSCR online in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.G.B. Spender Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Companies like HBO make such disgusting amount of money hourly; neither one of us will earn in whole life. It's just their own greed to blame for incidents like this because they won't spend money on proper security. It's the only way to hurt them - in their pocket. Serves them right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRiM Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 It's of no real confidence anyway since basically the whole script/summaries already leaked late in 2016. The leaks have now been proved extremely accurate, even down to wording in certain scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarikxmx Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 does anyone have linked to the website ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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