Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grouping of hackers acting nether the nickname Mr. Smith, hacked the servers of the cable channel HBO together with demanded a ransom inward bitcoins, equivalent to $ 6 million, reports Bloomberg . Otherwise, they threaten to set out unreleased episodes of serials, equally good equally confidential information.
This was stated inward the video, addressed to the Director General of HBO Richard Plepler.
Judging past times the screenshots shown inward the video, with the stolen generally technical information together with the listing of passwords of the administrator of the network, together with also, probably, drafts of 5 episodes of the "Game of Thrones", including i non soundless released episode, the archives of the correspondence of HBO Vice-President Leslie Cohen And other documents.
Hackers claim that past times breaking networks together with extorting they earn from 12 to fifteen i chiliad 1000 dollars a year. On hacking the HBO network, they took 6 months - together with hence they justify the required amount.
HBO officially confirmed the leakage of information on July 31.
This is non the get-go fourth dimension that hackers need ransom inward bitcoins, believing that it volition hold out easier to rest unrecognized. In May of this year, the ransom inward crypto currency was demanded past times the creators of the WannaCry virus , which infected computers unopen to the world. They managed to collect solely nearly fifty chiliad dollars .