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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 14 august 2017
No ‘Game of Thrones’ in latest HBO hacker leak

By TALI ARBEL and FRANK edged the hack in late July,
BAJAK and the thieves have been
Associated Press dribbling out stolen video
NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers and documents since then
continue to pester HBO, but while demanding a multi-
didn’t release any material million-dollar ransom .
related to the network’s hit They have leaked “Game
show “Game of Thrones” in of Thrones” scripts, sensitive
their latest leak. The hack- internal documents like job
ers, who broke into HBO’s offer letters and a month’s
computer network and worth of emails from a pro-
have been doling out sto- gramming executive. But
len information for the past the intrusion has so far fall-
several weeks, released en well short of the chaos
more unaired episodes, inflicted on Sony when the
including several of the studio was hacked in 2014.
highly anticipated return Still, the criminals may be
of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” holding on to more dam-
which debuts in October. aging data — both intel-
The latest dump includes lectual property, like un-
Sunday night’s episode of aired programming, and
“Insecure,” another popu- sensitive personal informa-
lar show, and what appear tion of HBO employees — This July 30, 2017, file photo shows Melina Matsoukas, from left, Prentice Penny and Issa Rae par-
to be episodes of other that they can use as lever- ticipating in the “Insecure” panel during the HBO Television Critics Association summer press tour
lower-profile shows, includ- age to try to get money in Beverly Hills, Calif.
ing “Ballers,” the unaired from HBO, said Gartner Associated Press
shows “Barry” and “The analyst Avivah Litan. “It’s to give in.” what it described as at- tion.” The company added
Deuce,” a comedy special kind of like kidnap and ran- In an emailed statement tempts to generate atten- that it was not in communi-
and other programming. som and torture,” she said. Sunday, HBO said it’s “not tion by dropping “bits and cation with the hackers. q
The network acknowl- “Eventually HBO may have going to participate” in pieces of stolen informa-