{"id":38370,"date":"2017-08-03T06:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38370"},"modified":"2017-08-03T06:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:14:18","slug":"hbo-conducts-forensic-review-to-understand-scope-of-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/hbo-conducts-forensic-review-to-understand-scope-of-hack.html","title":{"rendered":"HBO conducts forensic review to understand scope of hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">HBO conducts forensic review to understand scope of hack<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">HBO&#8217;s chief said on Wednesday that the company is conducting a forensic review of its computer systems to better understand the scope of a cyber attack that surfaced over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Entertainment Weekly reported on Monday that hackers stole 1.5 terabytes of data and leaked online a script or treatment for an upcoming episode of the network&#8217;s popular series &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221; along with yet-to-be-broadcast episodes of the series &#8220;Ballers&#8221; and &#8220;Room 104.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The hack comes at a sensitive time for HBO, as its parent Time Warner Inc is waiting for regulatory approval to sell itself to AT&amp;T Inc in an $85.4 billion deal announced in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">An HBO spokesman declined to discuss details of the hack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Chairman Richard Plepler told employees in a Monday email seen by Reuters that the hackers had stolen &#8220;proprietary information,&#8221; including some programming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In his note on Wednesday, he said that some employees had expressed concern about the email system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;At this time, we do not believe that our email system as a whole has been compromised, but the forensic review is ongoing,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Plepler&#8217;s note said that HBO would hire an outside firm to provide credit monitoring for employees, but did not explain why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">source:-https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cyber-hbo-idUSKBN1AI2Q7<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/hbo-conducts-forensic-review-to-understand-scope-of-hack.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO conducts forensic review to understand scope of hack HBO&#8217;s chief said on Wednesday that the company is conducting a forensic review of its computer systems to better understand the scope of a cyber attack that surfaced over the weekend. 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