Hackers demand from the creators of the "Game of Thrones" 6 million dollars in bitkoy

A few days ago, the Internet community was shocked by the information that an unknown group of hackers managed to steal huge amount of confidential information from HBO television channel, including the still unreleased television series "The Game of Thrones", new series scenarios, personal correspondence of the vice president of the TV channel and others. sensitive materials. As it turned out, the hackers turned this complicated operation for fun, but worked on implementing their plans for about six months and now they do not mind hiring a ransom of about 6,000,000 dollars from the HBO management.

The hacker group, codenamed Mr.Smith, believes that the information stolen by them, whether it is posted in open access, may lead to the collapse of the HBO channel. That's why some $ 6 million is a mere trifle for the creators of the series, the cost of one series of which considerably exceeds this amount. The hackers themselves do not hide that they earn from 12 million dollars a year on such hacking and subsequent blackmail, that's why they appreciated the stolen Games of Thrones series, scripts and other data in their six-month income. Of course, the ransom from HBO is required in bitcoins to track the money afterwards it was impossible.

To collect the necessary amount and transfer it to the bitcoins, HBO management was given only 3 days. At the moment, hackers have already merged into the network five series of the series "Game of Thrones", including the fifth episode that has not yet appeared. Each video is labeled "HBO is Falling". In case of non-compliance with the requirements, blackmailers threaten to publish the remaining videos, scripts and confidential information, including personal correspondence of studio employees and even contact details of famous actors. In addition to the new series of "Game of Thrones", new episodes of TV shows such as "Room 104", "Players", "White Crow" and others have also fallen into the hands of intruders. The total amount of stolen information is about one and a half terabytes.

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