Tag "HBO"

An Iranian military hacker indicted for HBO data theft

By : CIOL Writers

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has named an Iranian hacker named Behzad Mesri as the culprit behind four month old HBO data theft case. The Justice Department’s indictment charges 39-year-old Mesri, also known as “Skote

Over 3TB of Vevo documents leaked online after hack

By : CIOL Writers

While the West may still be reeling under the after-effects of the cybersecurity breach at the credit monitoring firm Equifax, here comes news about yet another security breach at music-streaming service Vevo, leading to release of over 3 terabytes of internal documents

Game Of Thrones spoilers being used to spread malware

By : CIOL Writers

While Game Of Thrones’ finale leak fears have been lurking around since last Friday, when HBO hackers – Mr Smith, revealed that they sold over 5 TB of HBO’s data to three customers in the deep web market (an underground online market inside

HBO’s Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked by OurMine

By : CIOL Writers

For HBO, it’s been a really tough month. Two weeks ago, HBO got hacked and its data got leaked; close to 1.5 TB of data got leaked online. Two episodes of the ongoing season 7 of Game of Thrones were

Has HBO offered to pay hackers $250K as a ‘bug bounty payment’?

By : CIOL Writers

HBO appears to have agreed to pay hackers $250000 who hacked their account and stole scripts, shows and employee information. The hackers released an email this week from HBO in which a company executive expressed willingness to pay them the

HBO hackers demand multi-million ransom for Game of Thrones scripts

By : CIOL Writers

HBO hackers posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online on Monday demanding millions of dollars in ransom from the network to prevent the release of entire television series and other sensitive proprietary files, according to the Associated Press. In a five-minute video

HBO hacked; Game of Thrones’ script leaked online

By : CIOL Writers

Hollywood seems to be the top target for hackers these days with HBO being its latest casualty. According to Entertainment Weekly, an upcoming Game of Thrones script and two unreleased episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have been leaked online after a security breach at HBO