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Hackers that recently targeted HBO have posted another Game of Thrones script and private emails from one of the company's executives. HBO has denied that its "e-mail system as a whole has been compromised":
The hacker or hackers behind the HBO data breach have posted online a publicly accessible link to a cache of internal documents, including a script summary of an upcoming Game of Thrones episode and a month's worth of emails from the inbox of one of the company's executives.
The materials, which mark the first evidence that some HBO private emails are in the hands of hackers, came Monday in an email message to The Hollywood Reporter that also contained nine files with such labels as "Confidential" and "Script GOT7." The hackers also delivered a video letter to HBO CEO Richard Plepler that says, "We successfully breached into your huge network. ... HBO was one of our difficult targets to deal with but we succeeded (it took about 6 months)."
The hackers also demanded around $6 million in Bitcoins.
Also at the Washington Post and Wired.
Previously: HBO Hacked, Leak of Game of Thrones s07e04 Unrelated
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @10:13AM (1 child)
All hacking is legal and is just. It is just communocating with computers. If they don't want to get hacked they should use better software and passwords.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:52PM
I feel the problem is that we don't have a universally recognized baseline in the world of cyber-this cyber-that (had some good cyber a couple days ago! I was a 19/f/Iowa!) that's the equivalent of the bog standard entry door lock and deadbolt. I mean, sure, who here can't pick or bump key one of those? But that's not the point.
Once I left my side door open, got distracted from whatever I was doing, and forgot about it. The neighbor gave a knock and let me know it was hanging in the breeze. I feel that's the equivalent of a web server that reveals sensitive information upon receiving an unexpected URL.
I'm certain that hacking is not sending a web server an unexpected URL. When some kindly passer-by contacts the webmaster to report something that doesn't seem quite right, what do we do in today's world? Treat her like a supergenius criminal mastermind and throw the fucking book at her.
Hacking should be the equivalent of lockpicking or bump-keying. Intent is pivotal. Lockpicks and bump keys shouldn't be illegal. Misusing them is. I think lockpicking is an important skill to have. Ever lock yourself out of your house? Keep a spare key under the door mat? We know that subverting these things, as somebody who has no business opening those locks, in the physical world where I'm not a 19/f/Iowa, is not complicated but still is wrong. Difficulty is not a measure of right or wrong. If I “hack” my front door because I've locked myself out, nobody's going to bat an eye (unless I'm black apparently, but c'est la vie). Neighbors may even offer to help, even if all they can do is let me use their phone to call a locksmith (ah yes, the world before cell phones).