Hackers who have already released upcoming episodes of HBO's Ballers and Room 104 and script material from an unaired Game of Thrones episode are threatening to release even more commercially-sensitive material if their demand of $7.5M is not met.
On Monday, the hackers, who allegedly seized 1.5 terabytes of data from the hit-making television network, released script summaries for the next five episodes of Game of Thrones, as well as scripts and entire seasons of other HBO shows.
The leak also included a month’s worth of emails from an HBO executive as well as what appears to be the contact list of HBO chief executive Richard Pleper, which The Guardian reported contained the personal phone numbers of Game of Thrones actors.
The hackers also shared a ransom note, in the form of a video, demanding HBO pay millions of dollars or else even more sensitive company data will be posted online.
In the video sent to Pleper, obtained by Mashable, the hackers say that they want up to $7.5 million in bitcoin delivered later this week.
"We often launch two major operations in a year and our annual income is about 12–15 million dollars. We are serious enough to do our business," read the hackers’ ransom note.
"We don’t play with you so, you in return, don’t play with us. You only have 3 days to make decision so decide wisely."
Game of Thrones continues on Sky Atlantic, Mondays at 2am and 9pm.
