A summary of Game of Thrones episode, claimed to be the finale episode of the ongoing season, have been shared online by a group of hackers calling themselves ‘Mr. Smith’, who breached the HBO’s network.
The hackers reportedly sent detailed plot outline of the season 7 climax ‘The Dragon and The Wolf’ to publications including Mashable, The Independent and Express UK, who all decided not to publish it.
The group behind the breach has managed to grab over 1.5 terabytes of data from the HBO and according to a report by the Mashable they are calling the recent leak as the “sixth wave of leaks”.
“The hacker may continue to drop bits and pieces of stolen information in an attempt to generate media attention,” HBO told Mashable in a statement. “That’s a game we’re not going to participate in,” the firm added.
According to Mashable’s report the group has demanded approximately $6.5 million worth of Bitcoin from HBO.
“By the way, we officially inform you and other hundred of reporters whom emailing us that we sold 'HBO IS FALLING's entire collection (5 TB!!!) to 3 customer in deep web and we earned half of requested ransom," the hackers told Mashable. "We put a condition for our respected customers and they approved. We will leak many many waves of HBO's internal stuff to punish them for playing us and set an example of greedy corporation.”
“Game of throne is over,” wrote Mr. Smith to Mashable.
