Hackers have struck again, this time leaking 4 out of 10 Season 5 episodes of “Game of Thrones.”
Torrent sites are reporting the downloading of the popular HBO series is already well into the hundreds of thousands..
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The timing for the show is awful … Season 5 kicks off tonight. It looks like someone took a DVD that was sent to the media for previews, blurred the watermark and posted it on several torrent sites. As for the number of illegal downloads … TorrentFreak claims in just 3 hours more it was the beneficiary of more than 100,000 downloads. h/t tmz
HBO just issued a statement, acknowledging the leak say vowing to actively figure out how it happened.