{"id":119580,"date":"2017-08-04T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119580"},"modified":"2017-08-04T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:52:20","slug":"hbo-launches-investigation-into-game-of-thrones-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/119580-hbo-launches-investigation-into-game-of-thrones-hack","title":{"rendered":"HBO launches investigation into Game of Thrones hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO is performing a forensic review of its computer systems following an attack that resulted details about an upcoming Game of Thrones episode being leaked,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cyber-hbo-idUSKBN1AI2Q7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows reports that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/222686-game-of-thrones-spoilers-posted-online-after-hbo-hack.html\">attackers breached HBO\u2019s systems<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and posted terabytes of data obtained through the hack on the website\u00a0Winter-leak.com.<\/p>\n<p>The information included details about the fourth episode from season 7 of Game of Thrones, and full\u00a0episodes from Ballers season 3, Barry season 1, Insecure season 2, and Room 104.<\/p>\n<p>HBO CEO Richard Plepler told employees they do not believe their system as a whole was compromised, and that a review is ongoing.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/221585-game-of-thrones-premiere-tripled-hbo-nows-revenue.html\">Game of Thrones premiere tripled HBO NOW\u2019s revenue<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO is performing a forensic review of its computer systems following an attack that resulted details about an upcoming Game of Thrones episode being leaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[197,8516],"class_list":["post-119580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hack","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119582,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119580\/revisions\/119582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}