THELOGICALINDIAN - Cable television networkHBO who afresh fell victim to a systemwide cyber advance that enabled hackers to abduct acute advice accept offered to pay the hackers a bug compensation of 250000 in Bitcoin to extend the bribe deadline
Earlier this anniversary hackers were able to aperture the arrangement of cable television network, HBO. They were able to abduct 1.5 terabytes of acute data, that includes important advice like contracts, business strategies, centralized letters, arcane research, scripts, and as yet unreleased episodes of several accepted series, including Game of Thrones, Ballers, and others.
In a video bribe demand addressed to the network’s CEO Richard Pepler, the hackers acutely spelled out their ambition to abide to aperture the baseborn abstracts unless their demands were met:
Though the hackers again accent their position as ‘white hat hackers’ and assert that money is not their primary motivation, added into the video they state:
The cable arrangement was accustomed three canicule to accede with the bribe appeal but according to an commodity in MarketWatch, HBO is alms to pay the hackers a ‘bug bounty’ of $250,000 in Bitcoin in barter for a one-week addendum of the bribe deadline.
According to a contempo commodity by USAToday, the hackers accept now leaked videos of unaired episodes from the alternation ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, ‘Barry’, ‘The Deuce’, and ‘Ballers’. The cable tv arrangement has appear a account which addresses the abstracts breach:
Whether or not HBO stands close in their abnegation to comedy the hackers’ “game”, continues to arrest for added time with added ‘bug bounties’, or eventually caves and pays the abounding bribe is still anyone’s guess.
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