Hackers demand ransom to scare Disney movies

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger said on Monday that hackers threatened to distribute the film they were about to release if the company did not pay "large amounts" of bitcoins.Disney announced it would not pay and wait until the leak actually took place.

Mr. Iger did not officially reveal which movie it was, but according to Deadline , it could be Caribbean Pirates: Dead Men Tell No Tales . The movie is expected to hit theaters on May 25. Besides Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars 3 is also a big budget film about to be released.

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Mr. Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the hacker will release 5 minutes of the movie, then each episode will be the next 20 minutes until their request is met. Walt Disney did not reveal the name of the film stolen by hackers, only to say they are working with federal investigators.

According to the Daily Telegraph, if the Pirates of the Caribbean, the leak will cause great losses to Disney because they had to spend $ 300 million to produce this blockbuster.

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Blockbuster movie series with actor Johnny Depp

In recent weeks, Disney is not the only company threatened by hackers. A group of hackers is believed to have released 10 episodes of the new film Orange Is The New Black in April, after Netflix did not pay the ransom as required. The episodes were uploaded to the Pirate Bay 6 weeks before the film's official release on June 9.

In 2014, hackers also froze Sony Pictures activity and asked the company not to release The Interview, a comedy that murdered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

This incident followed ransomware WannaCry 's global cyberattack that infiltrated computers and encrypted data of about 300,000 in more than 150 countries.