Home Box
Office (HBO), the American premium cable and satellite television network,
which is owned by Time Warner recently lost control of their social media
account to hackers.
HBO was
first hit by the ‘major cyber attack’ last month, in which hackers threatened
to leak a massive 1.5 terabytes of stolen content. So far, personal details of
the ‘Game Of Thrones’ cast members have been shared, as well as the upcoming
season 7 episode 6. The ‘fourth wave’ hack occurred earlier this month.
On
Wednesday, an organization that identifies itself as 'OurMine' took control of
the cable giant’s social media accounts. As well as the Facebook and Twitter
account for HBO itself, they also seized control of the social channels ‘Game
Of Thrones’ and ‘Westworld’.
‘OurMine are
here. We are just testing your security,’ one post read. Another message tried
to get the hashtag ‘#HBOleak’ trending.
But however,
HBO appeared to have since taken back control of the accounts and deleted the
posts.
Among the
content stolen in latest hack was the shooting schedules for ‘Game Of Thrones’
and the upcoming season 2 of ‘Westworld‘ – which may give away potential plot
details.
According to
Mashable reports, it has been claimed that the OurMine hackers are demanding
around $6.5 million in Bitcoin from HBO in exchange for not leaking additional
files.
In a
statement by HBO, they said: “There is an ongoing investigation we will have no
comment beyond the statements that are already out there.”
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