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Iranian 'Game of Thrones' Hacker Demanded $6 Million Bitcoin Ransom From HBO, Feds Say (thedailybeast.com)
Anonymous readers share a report: The Department of Justice on Tuesday charged an Iranian national with allegedly hacking into HBO, dumping a selection stolen files, and attempting to extort the company by ransoming a treasure trove of the company's content. This summer, hackers released a bevy of internal HBO files, included scripts for Game of Thrones and full, unaired episodes of other shows. Behzad Mesri, aka "Skote Vahshat," at one point worked for the Iranian military to break into military and nuclear systems, as well as Israeli infrastructure, according to the newly released complaint. Under his Vahshat pseudonym, Mesri also defaced hundreds of websites in the U.S. and around the world, the complaint adds. Mesri started his hacking campaign in around May 2017, according to the complaint, probing HBO's systems and employees for weaknesses. Mesri managed to compromise multiple HBO employee accounts as well as other authorized users; from here, he allegedly stole confidential and proprietary information. These included unaired episodes of Ballers, Barry, Room 104, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Deuce, as well as scripts for Game of Thrones. Indeed, the hacker behind the HBO breach publicly dumped much of this material online this summer.
all the effort he put in @ HBO was for the birds, as it seems.
And here I thought I was about to read a comment about the iranian bionic man...
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Didnt that one get dropped anyways?
HBO gets broken into and the Feds are all over it and try to mitigate the damage. It's just a fucking TV show.
Equifax gets broken into with data that can ruins lives and well, it sucks to be you.
We little people don't matter. We are just a commodity to be used and abused and thrown away.
Now, as to why a billionaire POTUS who inherited his money isn't looking out for us little people just baffles me.
I was told that he's one of us. That he was going to drain the swamp.
Now, I'm waiting for the new tax bill to pass while I wear my knee pads because I'm gonna get it up the ass.
You want to murder millions of people because one Iranian may have hacked HBO?
Okay, Hitler.
Stop believing the war propaganda.
http://original.antiwar.com/sahimi/2017/09/24/deconstructing-neoconservatives-manifesto-war-iran/
He seems to still be in Iran so the charges would be because
1) If he ever leaves Iran, Interpol can possibly pick him up if he goes to a country that respects the warrant and deliver him to the USA for trial.
2) It makes a point to Iran that if they want to continue messing with dual nationals and imprisoning them for flimsy reasons, the USA can go after their citizens too.
...but I really want to watch an iranian version of game of thrones now
...why did he expect them them to pay a ransom? On top of that, video leaks aren't always the best quality (this summer's GoT leaks showed that). Most people would still want to see a higher quality version of an episode.
I mean, when was the last time America and its honest Department of "Justice" lied about anything, without any actual substantial evidence?
when captain midnight messed with HBO the feds where all over it.
And yet the neocons and the Israelis LOVE Saudi Arabia, the most theocratic and oppressive Islamic regime on Earth. Do you see the problem here? You are being duped into shilling for war to support the interests of Saudi hegemony, and no one exports more radical Islamic terrorists than the Saudi government.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/11/07/ducks-lining-up-saudi-israeli-us-moves-on-iran-lebanon/
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6 million in May 2017 bitcoins would be worth a fortune now!
That's him!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
The failure to secure ones own systems particularly when connected to the internet is no ones fault other than that of the organization or person who owns that machine or machine(s) and does not take care of it/them.
The US and many governments/corporations for that matter have this idea that they have authority over the internet and the world. Well, the internet is not an intranet, and no, you don't. Reality is if you want "safety" secure your f'ing systems. Power has gotten to the heads of our elected leaders and the fail to understand the boundaries for which they actually demonstratively have power and control.
Russians buy ads on FB and suddenly Russia hacks the election. In keeping with that hysteria, Iran hacked HBO, not just an Iranian. Sounds legit.
Iran that wants to destroy the USA or Hbo that wants to enslave the USA with their crappy tv.
I would rather be ruled by a mulah than a rich east coast media executive. bring on radical Islam.dimmed
...he'll be known as a two bit(coin) bandit.
BTW his last name Misri means Egyptian, in Arabic, Persian and some other languages. :)
First name Behzad is Iranian/Afghan. Just sayin’
If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.