{"id":120098,"date":"2017-08-22T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120098"},"modified":"2017-08-22T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:13:05","slug":"hackers-threaten-to-leak-game-of-thrones-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/120098-hackers-threaten-to-leak-game-of-thrones-finale","title":{"rendered":"Hackers threaten to leak Game of Thrones finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group which recently attacked HBO\u2019s systems has threatened to leak the final episode of the current season of Game of Thrones,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/08\/18\/hbo-hackers-social-media\/\">Mashable reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Calling themselves the Mr. Smith group, the attackers claim to have passwords to nearly all HBO\u2019s social media accounts, in addition to the final episode of the current season.<\/p>\n<p>HBO told Mashable it is not in communication with the hackers and it is not going to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been widely reported that there was a cyber incident at HBO. The hacker may continue to drop bits and pieces of stolen information in an attempt to generate media attention,\u201d said HBO recently.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the attackers asked HBO for $6.5 million in Bitcoin as ransom, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/224212-hbo-reportedly-offers-to-pay-game-of-thrones-hackers-250000.html\">HBO reportedly offered to pay $250,000<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as a \u201cbug bounty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Variety reported that HBO\u2019s offer to pay was a stalling tactic while it assesses the situation.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/224816-hbo-accidently-leaks-game-of-thrones-episode.html\">HBO accidently leaks Game of Thrones episode<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group which recently attacked HBO\u2019s systems has threatened to leak the final episode of the current season of Game of Thrones,\u00a0Mashable reported.<\/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":[4555,6532,8516],"class_list":["post-120098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-hackers","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120098","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=120098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120098\/revisions"}],"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=120098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}