Game of Thrones has been going through a tough time for past 4 days as a group of hackers has invaded into HBO and leaked around 1.3 terabyte of data. An anonymous mail reached to the press on sunday, “Hi to all mankind. The greatest leak of cyber space era is happening. What’s its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its HBO and Game of Thrones……!!!!!! You are lucky to be the first pioneers to witness and download the leak. Enjoy it & spread the words. Whoever spreads well, we will have an interview with him. HBO is falling.”
Hackers have claimed to leak the script of 4th episode of GoT and apparently episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have been put online. This is not the first time when a big entertainment company has been a victim of cyber hackers, in april a hacker leaked episodes of Netflix’s orange is the new black season 5 ahead of its official summer release. Biggest incident of Hollywood cyber hacking was in 2014 when hackers claimed a 100 terabytes of data acquired from sony pictures and leaked a lot of secret information.
HBO is the latest victim of this breach and they are doing everything with in their power to get to the end of it as reported by a mail that went from chairman and CEO Richard Plepler to the employees. Fans around the globe are awaiting for the episode 4 as Jon Snow has went to meet Daenerys Targaryen and has given the winterfell to Sansa Stark, more of this extraordinary plot is to be revealed in Season 7 Episode 4.
