The anonymous email sent to the journalist has a paragraph saying: 'Hello to all humanity, the greatest leak is happening. What is that? Oh, I forgot to say. These are HBO and Game of Thrones. You're lucky to be the first to witness and download. Enjoy and tell people. Who spread the good news, we will interview with that person. '
If the hacker actually steals 1.5TB of data from HBO, this will be the second largest attack of the company, after 2015 when the first 4 episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 appeared on the Internet just before the broadcast. . However, compared to the Sony hack in 2014, when hackers steal 100TB of data, what HBO lost is still nothing.
In an email to the staff about the incident, HBO President and CEO Richard Plepler said: ' Unfortunately, what we are facing is so familiar in today's world. Just like the case that we faced, I fully believe we will pass . '
It is still unclear who is behind the hack.