HBO Offers Hackers $250K In Bitcoin To Buy More Time

Earlier this week hackers were able to breach the system of HBO and steal 1.5 terabytes of sensitive data, including important information like contracts, business strategies, internal letters, confidential research, scripts, and unreleased episodes of several popular series, including Game of Thrones, Ballers, and others.

HBO has offered to pay the hackers a ‘bug bounty’ of $250,000 in Bitcoin to extend the ransom deadline. In a video ransom demand addressed to the network’s CEO Richard Pepler, the hackers clearly spelt out their intention to continue to leak the stolen data unless their demands were met:

"Our demand is clear and Non-Negotiable: We want [redacted] dollars to stop leaking your Data. […] HBO spends 12 million for Market Research and 5 million for GOT7 advertisements. So consider us another budget for your advertisements!"

Read more here: http://bitcoinist.com/hbo-offers-hackers-250k-bitcoin-buy-time/