Breaking Down HBO’s Brutal Month of Hacks
Breaking Down HBO’s Brutal Month of Hacks
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August 22, 20179m 21s
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Show Notes
They say April is the cruelest month, but HBO may beg to differ. The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of its servers, in which hackers pilfered everything from full episodes of unreleased shows to sensitive internal documents. Not long after, in separate and distinct incidents, two episodes of Game of Thrones leaked out early. And Thursday, hacker group OurMine hijacked HBO’s main Twitter account, along with those of several HBO shows.
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